![]() … And at any time you have like flatness in the novel instead of spikes, then I think the reader can become bored and drift away. And it really quickly reaches like a plateau. I think when you're writing horror, you have to find a pressure release valve that you can depress every - I don't know - 10 or 12, maybe 15 pages, because horror tends to escalate, escalate, escalate, or inflate, inflate, and inflate. ![]() You just gotta push through until you exit and until the person at the end chases you with a chainsaw. And you know that there's gonna be stuff in there that's gonna make you jump and make you kind of regret having walked into the double doors, but you're already through the door. It kind of is like if you go to a haunted house attraction, then you pay your $20 and walk through those big double doors and see the darkness and fog and hear screams. On entering a horror novel knowing it will be scary Highlights of the interview with Stephen Graham Jones ![]()
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