Coming home Quote by Paul G. Tremblay

A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full…

— Paul G. Tremblay

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

— George Stephen

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

— Sarah Pinborough

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

— George Stephen

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

— Christopher Bollen

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though…

— Dan Chaon

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved…

— Douglas Brunt

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always…

— Colson Whitehead

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

— Chris Bohjalian

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

— Melissa de la Cruz

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

— Candace Kita