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The short story, it's not a step on the way to becoming a novelist.

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You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.

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The whole 'starting with stories, ending with novels' thing, it's probably too ingrained in the industry and the psyche to change it.

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In 1984, when 'Nightmare on Elm Street' came out, not only was I twelve and couldn't get into an R movie, but I lived twenty miles from a theater. So my first experience of it was on VHS.

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With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

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With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

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In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.

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Most zombie stories, the problems they solve are not the actual zombies. The problems they solve are the human interactions.

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We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn't live beyond the natural boundaries of life - or seek a third stage of life in this world.

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Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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