A Goodreads user asked Paula Cappa:

What inspired You to be a writer? Tell me some more, about Your books? Best regards: A. Tomov – junior

Paula Cappa Alexandar, I think my inspiration for writing quiet horror novels come from my ongoing attraction to the mysterious--ghost stories, especially. I have a fascination with the afterlife and what happens to our conscious awareness when death takes the body. It seems to me that those who pass on from this world, must exist at another level. As a reader I'm often looking for insightful stories about ghosts or entities on the other side of our physical life here. And not just horror to scare or entertain me; I look for meaningful stories to enlighten me. So, exploring my own curiosity and imagination sparks lots of fictions that I feel compelled to write. The Dazzling Darkness deals with ghosts that are haunting a cemetery. But the hook is what is also buried in that cemetery that affects the ghosts and the little boy who becomes lost there. In Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural, I deal with an powerful evil entity that haunts an artist's dreams. By making her dreams come alive in the physical world, this entity brings itself into the real world and with it some shocking results. I have several short stories (free links on my web site) that deal with spirits from beyond: Hildie at the Ghost Shore, The Haunting of Jezebeth, Between the Darkness and the Dawn which is about Nathaniel Hawthorne. All my fictions seem to be about how we might deal with confronting powers from the afterlife that remain here in our daily lives. Are you also fascinated with these mysteries?

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