To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated.
...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood__ut no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum...
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