Goodreads asked Gavin Oswald:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Gavin Oswald My most recent is a collection of horror stories, so there wasn't one inspiration (unless you'd count the collection of horrors I drag around with me).
It's mostly driven by existential dread and latent nihilism; the idea of a finite existence in a universe beyond anyone's ability to fully comprehend.
That pervasive mystery has always excited me just as much as it terrifies me. I think that's why I deal with so many open-ended stories. Nothing is ever tied up nicely with a bow. Everything comes from something so much older and extends so much further than what can be experienced in a single life. I don't see why fiction shouldn't reflect that aspect of reality, especially if it's horror.
There's always a joke or a horror story lurking around somewhere. We just have to decide which type of story we want to tell.

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