The enjoyment I get from writing comes from creating worlds, characters and life or death situations. The more exciting I can make a tale and the more removed I can make it from every day life the better. I do like to explore the human condition and also politics - the relentless march towards one world goverment and corporatocracy (conspiracy theories fascinate and intrigue me) but these are always firmly in the context of speculative fiction.
The writers who have influenced me most in horror are H. P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker. The first because of the former' more...