Killian Gupton asked David Wong:

I write a good deal of scifantasyhumorror (not a real word/genre, but totally should be) and whatever i'm reading at the time seems to leak into what i'm writing. With that baseline laid: were you reading Steven King's "It", John Keel's "The Mothman Prophecies" and Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles" while writing your John and David stories? Some themes and stylistic content seem similar.

David Wong I actually avoid reading novels while I'm writing one, because I'm afraid I'll accidentally steal something (not that you're stealing, I'm saying I'm only worried about me doing it). I have read two of those books in the past though and everything I've read influences me I'm sure - Stephen King is who taught me that I think things are much scarier when they're grounded in the mundane. Referencing the brand name of the cola the hero is drinking on the same page the monster appears makes the monster scarier, because you're contrasting it with something so mind-numbingly ordinary. Or at least I think so.

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