Essay Archive - Personal Writing: I Love Horror Novels
Personal Writing: I Love Horror Novels
This is no fantasy. This is no fallacious delusion of a sick, twisted
mind. This is the honest-to-God truth. I love horror novels. Stephen
King and Edgar Allen Poe are my idols. Perhaps having these two, demented
madmen as my personal mentors sounds sick, but I tend to think as they do.
Most of my writings are short stories of horror (usually about the length
of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Masque of the Red Death"). My
friends often ask me four questions: "Why do you not publish some of your
work?" and "Where do you get your ideas from?" and "What is it like....
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