Bert S. Lechner
Great question!
I've always been fascinated with horror in one way or another: When I was a kid and vhs stores were still a thing I'd go and sneak into the horror section just to look at all the video covers. When I started writing my own fiction in high school and university I gravitated towards fantasy and sci-fi short stories with horror elements.
I only got really, truly into horror in my late twenties. In a period where I was struggling with undiagnosed autism and the last throes of an abusive intimate relationship, the horror genre became a sanctuary for me, and my writing took the turn from horror adjaced to full on horror.
It was a difficult experience, but in the end it kind of feels like horror was, one way or another, going to be the inevitable genre I would write in, and I'm very happy to be here writing it!
I've always been fascinated with horror in one way or another: When I was a kid and vhs stores were still a thing I'd go and sneak into the horror section just to look at all the video covers. When I started writing my own fiction in high school and university I gravitated towards fantasy and sci-fi short stories with horror elements.
I only got really, truly into horror in my late twenties. In a period where I was struggling with undiagnosed autism and the last throes of an abusive intimate relationship, the horror genre became a sanctuary for me, and my writing took the turn from horror adjaced to full on horror.
It was a difficult experience, but in the end it kind of feels like horror was, one way or another, going to be the inevitable genre I would write in, and I'm very happy to be here writing it!
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