Ask the Author: Chris Opyr
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Chris Opyr
I'm terrible at any form of advance reading list. I tend to read by the whim of the moment, and with recent publication work, my reading time has been drastically reduced. So far I've only read Victor LaValle's amazing The Ballad of Black Tom. However I am currently reading Little Heaven by Nick Cutter, and Miramont's Ghost by Elizabeth Hall.
If I am lucky enough to carve out the time for those two, then I will likely jump to some Joe Hill, Harlan Coben, Stephen King, or John Ajvide Lindqvist. Or better yet, a horror author that I have not yet read. TBD.
If I am lucky enough to carve out the time for those two, then I will likely jump to some Joe Hill, Harlan Coben, Stephen King, or John Ajvide Lindqvist. Or better yet, a horror author that I have not yet read. TBD.
Chris Opyr
Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh was a natural fit for me. When I first started writing the novella, I was traveling frequently for work. At night, when I'd finish up working conferences, I'd sit down to work on my writing and my anxiety would be at peak levels post work-day. From there a combination of my travel, my anxiety, and my penchant for horror was inevitable.
As I began to ideate on concepts that took advantage of this mix, I thought long and hard on what I find to be most terrifying in books and movies, and realized that the most frightening thing we can experience is that which we cannot see, or in other words, the experience that allows our imaginations to run wild. We can always imagine something more frightening than the reality right in front of us.
With that in mind, I set about to craft a horror story around a protagonist that could not see, but only imagine, the antagonist. Not being confronted directly by the villain, the threat had to be against family.
From there, Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh sprung forth (with years of work and rewrites).
As I began to ideate on concepts that took advantage of this mix, I thought long and hard on what I find to be most terrifying in books and movies, and realized that the most frightening thing we can experience is that which we cannot see, or in other words, the experience that allows our imaginations to run wild. We can always imagine something more frightening than the reality right in front of us.
With that in mind, I set about to craft a horror story around a protagonist that could not see, but only imagine, the antagonist. Not being confronted directly by the villain, the threat had to be against family.
From there, Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh sprung forth (with years of work and rewrites).
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