“You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.” SweetHorror Book:Stay Awake Source: Stay Awake
“I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.” WayWritingKindStoriesWantedStageHorrorGhostGhost StoriesHorror Stories Author:Dan Chaon
“I also have just my own limits about stuff. I'm not interested in writing graphically about sexual assault for example. I feel like the stuff that I'm fascinated by is the stuff that's part of the public imagination of what horror is. The bleakness is a different issue. I think that just stems from my personality. I wish that I offered a little more glimmer of hope sometimes.” ThinkingWritingDifferentSometimesWishImaginationPersonalityHorrorNot InterestedStem Author:Dan Chaon
“I've always been a horror movie fan, since I was a kid. And I was also a really scared kid. I was easily scared of the dark. One of the ways I would try and get away from my fear of the dark was to pretend like the monsters were my friends.” TryingKidsDarkHorrorScaredGet Away Author:Dan Chaon
“I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call "contemporary headline horror," stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news. And, you know, lastly, probably things that have happened to me in my own life.” ReasonAttentionCrimeStrangeHorror Author:Dan Chaon
“I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.” EndsReasonStuffAttentionCasesMediaCrimeStrangeHorrorNewsContemporaryHeadlinesAnecdotesObsessing Author:Dan Chaon
