As a lifelong lover of the horror genre (surprise!) I'm always on the lookout for new angles. Sure, it's still fun just to be scared or grossed out if it's done in an entertaining way, but what I really I love is seeing how truly creative writers and directors can take horror off in directions that are able to surprise even a longtime aficionado like me. You think you've seen everything, and then a Guillermo del Toro comes along and you realise there are so many more places that the genre can take you.

So I was very pleased to see an article called "Surreal Horror: A Seven-Book Starter Pack" over on the Nightfire site a while back, talking about horror books that run a good bit weirder than the norm. And I was even more pleased to see one of MY books in among the seven -- Procession Of The Dead, which was actually the first book I ever published way back in 1999 (under its original title, Ayuamarca). If you've never read any of my work for adults (and although I found fame as a children's author, I was writing for grown ups first), this gives you a little taste of just how strangely they can run...

https://tornightfire.com/surreal-horror-a-seven-book-starter-pack/

These days I write for adults under the name of Darren Dash, and I've tackled every kind of genre imaginable -- weird sci-fi/horror (An Other Place), straight-up horror (Sunburn), crime (The Evil and the Pure, Molls Like It Hot), and even Shakespearean-inspired fantastical comedy (Midsummer's Bottom). If you'd like to find out more about those and where you can buy them, click here: http://www.darrendashbooks.com/