I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
Poppy Z. Brite
Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.
death live fun darkness love
When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.
vampire horror
If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.
life
He has ''. Eddy fumbled for her high school French. 'A heart like an artichoke?' '. He has a leaf for everyone, but makes a meal for no one.
food
There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.
youth romance gay unrequited-love
Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
loneliness night torture reflection evening
I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [..] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M. Knows all my secrets.
loneliness
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
sleep night insomnia
I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
food people home the-public
I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
people home
There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!
people thetimes time
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.
death
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
places funny experience
movies
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
progress work
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