Louis Arata asked Isaac Marion:

Are there other horror motifs (vampires, werewolves, ghosts) that you want to explore from a perspective as original as Warm Bodies? Are there other genres that you plan to tackle? I enjoyed the movie but, no surprise, your book was so much better.

Isaac Marion Every genre is a subversion waiting to happen and the results will almost always be more interesting than the genre itself, but I don't plan to make a schtick out of this. What inspired me to write about zombies was that they were the only classic monster who hadn't really been explored. All the other big ones--vampires, werewolves, ghosts, etc--had been done from just about every possible angle but zombies were this odd gap in pop culture, a well known monster that had almost never been used for anything but a generic danger prop. I found this especially odd considering zombies are actually just humans suffering a kind of locked-in syndrome--you never know what might be going on in their heads--a condition that was ripe with potential for a first-person narrative.

By this point, though, I'd say that gap in pop culture has been thoroughly filled and I'm not aware of any other monsters crying out for further study. I'll be going back to my own well from here out.

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