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John Watson

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in Johnstone, Scotland, The United Kingdom

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Horror

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Clive Barker

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As well as robots, clowns, and living statues, John Watson has an extensive list of things that terrify him. He is of the belief that writing about these horrors will make him immune to their evils, but it is still a work in progress. Mr. Watson spends most of his time hiding out in the closet space beneath the stairs, where he is currently working on a series of scary short stories. He resides in Atlanta with his chef wife Penny and a pair of equally skittish fur babies.

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Breaking Down My Books

When you have your first book published, you become fiercely protective of that title. By the time you are a few books in, you begin to develop a bit of perspective about each title. This is not to suggest that you suddenly hate one of your own books, but the experience of writing each one creates a ranking system in your own mind.

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Kept Warm For the Mountain

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The Ears Have Eyes (Garcia After Dark)

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For me, Nevill is one of the best horror authors in the business right now, so I go into his books with a higher level of expectation than most. It is perhaps because of those expectations that No One Gets Out Alive did not fully hit the mark for me, ...more
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