Some of these stories inspired and guided the style of my debut collection of short stories, Sinking Bell, and others have shown me the future of what is possible with the next sequence of stories that I’ll write. I grew up reading horror and hearing stories of the supernatural from my parents, grandmother, and extended family. As a personal practice, I resist seeing the elements of genre, though as a professor I often have to examine the criteria of genre with my students so that they know what “rules” to bend, reshape, or ignore all together. Ghosts, monsters, the inexplicable and unknown are all real to me and I approach them with a realist’s eye and practice. For what is more evil, disgusting, and detestable than the horrors of man.
A Personal Anthology 