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This is a great question for me, because I've been thinking about this very thing as of late. Had you asked me, even 3 months ago, I would have said Christopher Moore without even thinking about it. I've only been reading him for about 6 years or so now, and he's goddamn good. His ability to tell us about horrible occurrences while making us laugh is impressive and amazing. His books are engaging and truthy and I find myself thinking about them long after I've read them.
Before that, obviously, I would have said either Margaret Atwood or Stephen King. Say what you want about Stephen King's current work. on the strength of his first 4 books alone, he deserves to be called King of Horror in perpetuity. There is none higher; Suckah James Patterson should call him Sire!
That said, Jack Ketchum (NOT his real name, as it turns out) is impressing the hell out of me. The Girl Next Door is a tremendously moving, despite that vacuous POS movie they made out of it. I've got some of his other stuff on my list. It seems that Village Voice accused him of writing gratuitous torture porn or some such. Often times, when people use the word "gratuitous" they're saying something closer to I don't understand what they're trying to do. Also, I don't like what I'm feeling. Guess what? It's horror, and you're not supposed to like it.
So really, those are the people I emulate. I want to be gripping, memorable, relevant, and (dare I say it?) widely read. I want to scare the hell out of people, but I also want to give them perspective and hopefully encourage understanding and empathy.
This is a great question for me, because I've been thinking about this very thing as of late. Had you asked me, even 3 months ago, I would have said Christopher Moore without even thinking about it. I've only been reading him for about 6 years or so now, and he's goddamn good. His ability to tell us about horrible occurrences while making us laugh is impressive and amazing. His books are engaging and truthy and I find myself thinking about them long after I've read them.
Before that, obviously, I would have said either Margaret Atwood or Stephen King. Say what you want about Stephen King's current work. on the strength of his first 4 books alone, he deserves to be called King of Horror in perpetuity. There is none higher; Suckah James Patterson should call him Sire!
That said, Jack Ketchum (NOT his real name, as it turns out) is impressing the hell out of me. The Girl Next Door is a tremendously moving, despite that vacuous POS movie they made out of it. I've got some of his other stuff on my list. It seems that Village Voice accused him of writing gratuitous torture porn or some such. Often times, when people use the word "gratuitous" they're saying something closer to I don't understand what they're trying to do. Also, I don't like what I'm feeling. Guess what? It's horror, and you're not supposed to like it.
So really, those are the people I emulate. I want to be gripping, memorable, relevant, and (dare I say it?) widely read. I want to scare the hell out of people, but I also want to give them perspective and hopefully encourage understanding and empathy.
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