![]() My love of horror originally stems from my mother’s love of horror. It was almost twenty years before I started writing regularly again. ![]() ![]() The teachers did their best for me, but the system required that everyone achieved to the same level so I found I was held back. I knew from early on that I wanted to be a writer, had my own table in the corner for poetry classes, so that I would remain undistributed, and was the only eight year old in my class whom was allowed to write his own work rather than read someone else’s. Coming from a working class background, my family were unable to support me in my chosen profession, and with little help available to me, I stopped writing around my fourteenth birthday. Once they found out how old I was, most wouldn’t entertain I was writing those works (Deckerland, A view of Heaven), so I found responses were laced with cynicism and suspicion. In those days we had no internet, no mobile phones, so I found it difficult when approaching publishers by snail mail. I was influenced by emerging authors of the time (Clive Barker), and became a big fan of the work Stephen King produced when he was around 18. I wrote my first horror novel when I was Twelve years old (unpublished – still have it), and continued to work on it until I was thirteen. When did you realise you wanted to be a horror writer? My first interview is with a fellow UK horror author. ![]()
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