Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark. Stephen Graham Jones creaturedarkfigure Change image and share on social
With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called. Stephen Graham Jones callinfectionplague Change image and share on social
My uncle Randall always had a book in his hand. He read in the car, he read at restaurants, he read when you were talking to him. He read lots of different things, but mostly it was Louis L'Amour's westerns and contemporary thrillers. Stephen Graham Jones amourbookcar share on social
When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways. Stephen Graham Jones 80s90sdatlow share on social
Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer. Stephen Graham Jones duckexpositionforget share on social
Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room. Stephen Graham Jones daygenrejoe Change image and share on social
In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story. Stephen Graham Jones amityvilleaudiencecore share on social
Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back. Stephen Graham Jones absolutelybackbalance share on social
In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival. Stephen Graham Jones anymorefasthumanity Change image and share on social
Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction. Stephen Graham Jones genrehorrorinvoluntary Change image and share on social
