Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was .. . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.

Michael McDowell
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Stephen King says horror fiction is the best way to communicate the impossible. Taking what might otherwise be unbelievable and making it seem inevitable, as if it’s real. Horror fiction is a way of showing the world how it would look if we let ourselves become as vicious as we can be. Why do we write horror? To scare ourselves, to horrify ourselves, to remind ourselves that we are capable of doing things we would never do.

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