In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot..

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him..

Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things..

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever..

I write horror because I enjoy it. I'm endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don't have much choice. ….

I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost r….

Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average g….

The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famou….

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career..

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, o….

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part wi….

I think the internet is a great marketing tool--but marketing is not my job. I'm a writer. My job is to write novels..

A light wind blew through here that carried with it scents of sadness and loss, not recognizable odors but smells that corresponded to nothing, chime….

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field fo….

If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not….

There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the firepla….

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I writ….

Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations..

There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded liter….

Life is short. Eternity is long..

Like most authors, I'm a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access, I would waste countless hours looking….