#HorrorWritersChat I’m more comfortable with fairy tale horror, where the creature/place/supernatural event/magic object represent a primal fear and ask difficult questions. Imaginary setting and realistic psychological reactions do it for me. Not everyone is a hero- and if they are, at what price?

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If I do make anyone quiver, I suspect it would be because of emotional brutality. I did shock myself with a few passages of Phengaris. #HorrorWritersChat

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I tend to go for small details to create the horror in my stories. The knowledge of what something /should/ be like, but yet is somehow /off/ in a subtle way. Atmosphere, too; taking two steps into a room and knowing immediately that something is wrong, but not how, why, or where. #HorrorWritersChat

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#HorrorWritersChat When writing, I often give great thought to not only *what* is terrifying, but *why* it is. Three of biggest horror inspirations for me are: 1. Things vaguely or directly inspired by things I've experienced in the past. 2. Random thoughts or musings that just pop into my head.

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Q2: #HorrorWritersChat What is a haunted house but the safest place we should trust being a trap? Is it set by other people? Otherworldly entities? What if the whole universe was a haunted house? What if everything was simultaneously oblivious and an existential threat to us? Would you look or run?

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