Night & Demons
May 14, 2012
- Cover art: Alan Pollack
My earliest published fiction was fantasy and horror. I stopped writing horror in about 1980 as I started to get my head up from Viet Nam.
The horror boom of the ’80s that followed the success of Stephen King didn’t tempt me back in, despite the urgings of my agent and others. I was writing to stay between the ditches, not to make money. I didn’t want to put my head back in that place (though in truth, the places it was were bleak enough anyway).
Beyond that disinclination, I was by no means sure that I would make money in the horror genre. The problem that I saw was that my horror was really horrible.