Kieran

Kieran asked Joe Hill:

Obviously your background is defined as "horror" and "thriller" but I see from interviews that you have a very wide and eclectic taste in literature. In the future, is there anything you'd like to do or try that is maybe not your stereotypical "Joe Hill" novel like romance, a historical epic or noir for example?

Joe Hill I read a lot of historical fiction and have impulses to write stuff set in America's past. The older I get, the more I find myself thinking about the way no one can escape history. No matter how much agency you claim for yourself, no matter how you plan, history is this tidal force that catches you up and bears you away from all your certainties. If you're lucky, it doesn't drown you.

Whether or not my readers really want me to do a historical thing is another question.

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Max Svalgard

Max Svalgard asked Joe Hill:

If your novel NOS4A2 you made an interesting formatting choice, where the last sentence would end a few words short and that would be the title of the next chapter. I've never experienced anything like that and honestly found that a bit jarring. What lead to that choice? I loved the book, as well as the graphic novel accompaniment Wraith, but I've been wondering about that choice ever since reading it.LockeandKey4ever

Allen Huntsman

Allen Huntsman asked Joe Hill:

How would you define a horror story? What are the key ingredients that make a story fit that category? I read in a book called The Philosophy of Horror that the story must depict people of our ordinary world in conflict with something extraordinary and unnatural--something we can't understand logically or scientifically. Do you agree with this definition, or do you think the category of horror is much wider?

Kathy

Kathy asked Joe Hill:

Somehow today I deleted your current newsletter. It mentioned an author, his book signing and copies of your signed comics given away at the event. Could you please tell me the name of the author and his book? Thanks, Kathy

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