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"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."
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"There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis's head was gone.Well, no. Not exactly. It was there, but all spread out. Mooshed. No loss of talent in that mess. Morrie thought."
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"His head .. it exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull."
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"It has its dark splendor, to walk the nightmare terrain forever."
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"Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror."
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"It was one of those things they keep in a jar in the tent of a sideshow on the outskirts of a little, drowsy town. One of those pale things drifting in alcohol plasma, forever dreaming and circling, with its peeled, dead eyes staring out at you and never seeing you. It went with the noiselessness of late night, and only the crickets chirping, the frogs sobbing off in the moist swampland. One of those things in a big jar that makes your stomach jump as it does when you see a preserved arm in a laboratory vat."
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"He stood in rain and the storm, watching a demon with his face standing and laughing at him on a chariot run by drunk horses. The storm threw dust into his eyes, while the demon unleashed the horses one after the other at him."
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"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
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"My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going to be in darkkkk."
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"Stop now before i kill youa word to the wise from your friendPENNYWISE."
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"Horror is like the humor, the one without the other can't exist. Horror makes life more interesting like the humor!"
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"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."
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"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."
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"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
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"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
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"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
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"I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself."
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"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
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"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
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"So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing."
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