Dark & Twisty

Things you should know about this horror writer.

1. I've never seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre  or any of the Romero Dead movies beyond the original Night of the Living Dead.

1.5 I have a severe phobia of chainsaws and all power saws, which is why I've never seen the TCM.  It is also the reason I won't go to spook houses on Halloween.

2. Beyond, my fear of power saws.  I am afraid of heights, but not really anything else.

3. I don't believe in ghosts, aliens, vampires, werewolves, mummies, monsters, and most zoocrypts.

4. I wrote my first master thesis on perception of humor.  I consider myself an expert on how humor is used as a coping skills.

5. Marionette puppets and vantriliquist dolls bother me (I suppose that is uncanny).

6. I only started seriously reading horror literature about 5 years ago.  Until then, I almost exclusively read classics.

7. My first published story was about a therapist who doesn't believe that his client was bitten by a zombie.

8. I write horror as a cathatric release.  I work on a psych unit.  I can't kill them, but I would sure like to some time.

9. My grandmother is terrified that I'm going to snap one day.

10. My favorite movie is Casablanca, my favorite book is The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Elton John is my favorite musical artist (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the best album), none of which are horror stories.

The strange thing is that I don't have a lot of association of horror outside the study of it and my personal writing.  No horror novel or movie has become my favorite.  I don't look like I would write horror (scifi but not horror maybe fantasy).  I hate fantasy and most sci fi.

So there we go.