I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

My day job is making TV shows.

If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.” “That you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.” "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and death—the world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?