Recent Interviews
Kandisha Press
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I love dark fiction because it tells the truth. Sometimes, the truth of a human experience can be more powerfully and meaningfully conveyed when it’s not precisely literal — when being pregnant with Satan’s baby allows us to understand control of women’s bodies through manipulation and gaslighting (Rosemary’s Baby), or when a vision seen in ugly room decor allows us to enter the mind of a woman with postpartum psychosis (“The Yellow Wallpaper”), or when a chillingly beautiful portrait becomes a metaphor for society’s repression (The Picture of Dorian Gray).
Great interview with Kandisha Press shortly after they published Graveyard Smash! |
Kendall Reviews
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Those are universal fears, of course, but I particularly love that horror invites its audience to take its female characters’ fears seriously and not write them off dismissively as hysteria. When we read horror, we know the woman isn’t crazy; the house really is haunted and the neighbors really are in league with the Devil.
Interview with Kendall Reviews |
Paula R.C. Readman
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For “Kiss,” I’d say the hardest scene to write was the one after Dr. Eliot is about to have the kiss of a lifetime. I knew what his reaction would be, but what then? How was this event going to shape and change him thereafter? What kind of a person was he going to be to himself and to others after that moment?
Interview with Paula R. C. Readman |