![]() ![]() Shorter works – many readers have been quite pleased (and quietly terrified, they told me!) with The Bodymen, Crabmeat, The Interview and Warpigs. The book is as British as fish & chips, so I’m pleased to see it doing well over the pond. It’s garnered some very positive reviews and sales are going well, particularly in America. Notable? Well, in terms of size and scope, it’ll be my Cambridge based novel The Caretakers. In recent years Lovecraft has been my biggest inspiration, particularly his Deep Ones. My imagination seemed to make the experience more rich and fulfilling. And I much preferred to read about it than watch it on screen. I was a bit of a gore-hound at that age – what kid isn’t? – and I did enjoy the graphic descriptions of carnage and blood-spill, but the main appeal for me was really seeing how ordinary people cope with a fantastical threat that’s beyond their comprehension. Peter Benchley’s Jaws was my first adult novel, and that fed into the golden age of British pulp horror with James Herbert’s The Rats novels and Guy N Smith’s Crabs books. I loved dinosaurs and sharks as a kid, and was always fascinated by the ‘man versus mutant nature run amok’ movies. What first attracted you to horror writing?īig. ![]()
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