Anecdotes Quote by Dan Chaon

I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call "contemporary headline horror," stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches…

— Dan Chaon

I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times…

— Scott Heim

Fans are always asking me where I get my ideas from. The answer is that I'm very curious, and I get inspiration from everywhere.…

— Tess Gerritsen

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

— George Stephen

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

— Brian Pinkerton

To me, the stories that have always intrigued me are the stories of people leaving my movies and being affected by them. They walk…

— Terry Gilliam

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of…

— Nick Petrie

I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's…

— Peter Robinson

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

— Jonathan Brandis

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

— India Eisley

I feel like I'm in a horror film. Everywhere I turn, there's a journalist.

— Ksenia Sobchak