Three Key Quotes

The fol­low­ing is from Dark­ness Absolute: The Stan­dards of Excel­lence in Hor­ror Fic­tion by Dou­glas E. Win­ter, a critic and biog­ra­pher of Stephen King and Clive Barker:
If you would excel in this field, remem­ber that a fun­da­men­tal mis­take is to strive to emu­late the com­mer­cial hor­ror novel or story. The bulk of this fic­tion is …