When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."