M. L. Hollowell
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Every other scene, an autopsy where they're sawing the top off somebody's head or dragging a dead snake out of a corpse's mouth.
And do you know how many exploding heads I've seen on TV in the last few weeks?
Too many to count.
How do you compete with that?
How does a horror writer, as somebody with words as their only weapon, tool, compete with that?
By doing what they can't do on TV.
By getting inside your character's heads.
What's scarier than that?
Come on, a spooky nun?
Well, maybe that one.
But the real terror resides in the endless subterranean hallways of our minds.
Those dim, hushed, echoing spaces where exist those things we try to hide.
Those half-seen lurking entities.
The scrabbling leeches in the shadows, whose eyes shine infernally.
And whose teeth drip with ichor.
That's going on the back cover of my short story collection...