I’m not a nihilist. I don’t write horror to make people more afraid of the world, or to be scared of the unknown. I feel like good horror, or even the kind I write, is scary in the sense that undiscovered territory is scary. It should take the brain out of its comfort zone and, if nothing else, leave it with a better sense of just how much we don’t know about our world and about ourselves. Maybe it can even add a touch more empathy and understanding to a world that desperately needs
