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
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.
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.
audience comparison difficult easy endings fiction jaded laugh people sad
Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
faces haunted house money people scare steals
You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.
christmas counting people until
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
people fiction poverty
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.
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.
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.
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?