I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels.

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.