Literary Horror: Dude you made that up (introduction from Phantom)

(the brief essay that serves as the intro to Phantom):

Literary Horror: Dude you made that up

The following is a brief (and clearly informal!) e-mail exchange with a colleague–who primarily writes and reads works of fantasy–concerning PHANTOM and horror in general:

Colleague: A horror anthology sounds interesting. I'm a person who loves/hates horror. I can't read or watch movies without gettng the heebie-jeebies. Yet, I still do it (on rare occasion).

Me: I'm a big time scaredy cat. So my tastes...