Drew Daywalt Quotes

I am drawn to Americana, and I am drawn to gothic stories, and I love American gothic stories.

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan as far as that goes; I think there are some stories of his that are really quite wonderful, but for the most part, I have great difficulties with his prose - and the more you know about the man, the harder it is to separate him from the work in many ways.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'

The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

Horror is a part of science fiction. It belongs in the definition of sci-fi.

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

I'm a Stephen King fanatic.

I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Garden' which has a big influence on Lord Loss, believe it or not!

The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.

I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

I'm a fan of some horror. Some of the really corny b-horror movies I don't love so much, but 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite movies.

I'm a big Stephen King fan.

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror writers' community, and those people really liked horror, you know. They will go to any lengths and read whomever they can find because they like that feeling of being scared.

I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.