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Mark Matthews:
As an addict with 8 years clean, I was amazed how you were right on with the desperation of the disease. What made you think of writing horror?
Mark Matthews
Thanks so much for your question, and huge congratulations on your 8 years clean. Cliche today, but staying clean for one day after you've lived a life of addiction is indeed a miracle.
Addiction is hard to fully comprehend until you've been there. To crave for a substance that, at least for the moment, can cure all your ills (which, of course, then CREATES all your ills.)
After my first novel, Stray, I started to realize that I like to write dark fiction. This is not because I feel that I, or other horror writers, wish that upon anyone. On the contrary, I believe that horror writers are extra sensitive to our fragile human condition. That intensity of feeling translates to horror. If you want to tell the truth, best to do so in a story, and want to tell some dark truths, you're going to need a dark story.
I wrote a blog post on this, which may say it better. Check it out if you have 4 minutes. http://www.markmatthewsauthor.com/p/m...
Addiction is hard to fully comprehend until you've been there. To crave for a substance that, at least for the moment, can cure all your ills (which, of course, then CREATES all your ills.)
After my first novel, Stray, I started to realize that I like to write dark fiction. This is not because I feel that I, or other horror writers, wish that upon anyone. On the contrary, I believe that horror writers are extra sensitive to our fragile human condition. That intensity of feeling translates to horror. If you want to tell the truth, best to do so in a story, and want to tell some dark truths, you're going to need a dark story.
I wrote a blog post on this, which may say it better. Check it out if you have 4 minutes. http://www.markmatthewsauthor.com/p/m...
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