I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]
I think I was always meant to write dark stories.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.
When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.
'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
I want to be in a Tim Burton movie so bad.
There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.
Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
Whatever the regulations are, you can be as dark and disturbing as you want and we're going to go in that direction. The intention is to be as dark and scary as possible with the show. And that was our whole kind of plan going in, to make it scary. So we're going to explore all kinds of things.
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh, and that's pretty much it.
People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.
Long before punk entered my life, I loved scary films and stories.
