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There Are An Awful Lot Of Readers Who Won't Pick Up A Book If They Think It's Got Anything Horrific In It, Or Paranormal Or Whatever.

What Brighton's Got Is A Major Sea Port On Either Side, Good For Importing Drugs, Great For Exporting Cash, Stolen Cars, Stolen Antiques. It's Got The Largest Number Of Antique Shops In The Uk, So It's A Great Place To Fence Stolen Goods. It's Got Tremendous Communication: You've Got The Sea Ports, You've Got The Channel Tunnel, You've Got Gatwick Airport 25 Minutes Away, And London's 50 Minutes Away By Train. So All These Escape Routes... Which Is What Villains Like.

The Crime Genre's Always Been Regarded Very Well By The Literary End Of The Book World, Whereas Horror, Although It Had That Spell In The Late Eighties, By And Large, It's Sort Of Ghetto-ized, And Considered To Be Exploited Literature.

We're Full Of Electricity, And The Walls And Floor Of A Building Contain Carbon - The Same Makeup As A Video Tape - And I Think We Give Off A Huge Amount Of Energy. Some People Are Able To See That And Pick That Up. I Think Almost Every Person I've Met In My Life Has Had Some Sort Of Experience That They Can't Explain, And Those Fascinate Me.

I've Always Been Much More Scared Of The Living Than I Am Of The Dead.