![]() When it comes to how I approach horror fiction, I always think about a description I once read of the British ghost story writer Robert Westall that said, “It was the infinite strangeness of the supernatural that fascinated Robert Westall, not the horror.” That’s always kind of how I’ve thought of myself and my own pull toward darker fiction. That said, the stories in Guignol are probably among the grimmest I have ever written, though hopefully they’re not still without their fun, too. Whatever the case, horror is the genre that I love, and I want that love to show through in my writing. ![]() I struggle with anxiety, and maybe inhabiting the liminal spaces of horror fiction made me feel safer in the often uncertain and cacophonous real world. Not necessarily as an escape, per se, but nevertheless as a place where I felt comfortable. Benson than more visceral or gruesome stuff. At least as a writer, I’ve always been more attracted to the “pleasing terror” of M.R. Orrin Grey: I like to think of what I write as “fun horror.” Because that’s what horror has always been for me, something fun. ![]() ![]() For those newcomers, could you tell us a little bit about yourself, what kind of horror you write, and how you started writing fiction? Hellnotes: Congratulations on your new collection Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales ! Although this is your third short fiction collection, some of our readers may not be familiar with your work yet. ![]()
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