Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. He shares a fan base with fellow authors Will Christopher Baer and Craig Clevenger known as "The Velvet"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.
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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.
The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.
The slasher film is such a neat, self-contained genre.
covering five full hundred novels obviously pages people six three weaving written
I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up doing, it's going the full distance, covering three hundred pages or so, but they do it by just writing five or six long stories, and weaving them together, making them interdependent.
change ingrained psyche
The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.
almost humor
The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.
broke haunted people
People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.
default lock people prefer spacecraft time
Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
creature largely longer romantic scary tragic vampires
Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.
There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
charting everybody supposed
You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it?
highly recommend
I would highly, highly recommend seeing 'Paranormal Activity' with a friend or, better yet, a group.
facts good truth
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.