As many writers of fiction have said, you sometimes have to go where the story tells you to go.
In the following email interview about her new novel Blood On Her Tongue (paperback, Kindle), author Johanna van Veen not only discusses what inspired and influenced this Gothic horror story, but also how it didn’t start out as a vampire tale.
The Grimm Brothers’ fairytale “The Juniper Tree” is considered by many to be their darkest story. Which is just one of the reasons why — as she explains in the following email interview — writer Ava Reid decided to put her own spin on it with the Gothic horror novel Juniper & Thorn (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview about their new “sawmill Gothic” novella The Secret Skin (paperback), writer Wendy N. Wagner not only explains what she means by “sawmill Gothic,” but also how, in a weird way, this story is a bit of a history lesson.
As a lonely man who lives alone, I am acutely aware of how some people might suspect the worst of me, and do what I can to not arouse their suspicions, lest they find out what I’m really up to…
It also makes me interested in stories about loners and the people who wonder if they’re up to no good, like the main character in Catriona Ward’s Gothic horror thriller The Last House On Needless Street (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Ward talks about what inspired and influenced this scary story, as well as why she thinks I should get a cat.
A lot can be said about secretive, controlling men — none of it good. Well, one of it good: it can inspire authors to write something interesting.
Which brings me to writer Caitlin Starling and her new Gothic horror tale about a secretive, controlling man: The Death Of Jane Lawrence (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Starling discusses what inspired and influenced this scary story. But don’t worry, it’s not bad.
