Sometimes The Body Gets Out Of Bed

Brighton Is A Beautiful Seaside City, But It's Got A Dark Underbelly.

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.

If You And I Took A Walk Down A Shopping Street In Jo'burg Or Cape Town Or London, We See Two Guys Looking In A Shop Window, We Think, "oh, They're Wondering What They're Going To Buy." A Cop Looks At Them And Thinks, "why Are They Standing There? Are They Doing A Drug Deal? Are They Going To Mug Someone? Are They Going To Rob The Shop?"

I Think That Brighton, For A Crime Writer, Is Almost Like A Character.

Stalin Was Experimenting With Telepathy In The 1930's. Winston Churchill Had A Paranormal Office, Trying To Get People To Travel Out Of Their Bodies And See Behind Enemy Lines In The Second World War. And The Pentagon... The X-files Is Based On A Real Department In The Pentagon, That's Still There Now. Pretty Much Every Government, Probably As Far Back In Time As We Can Go, Has One. And The Police Will Quite Often - And When I Say Often, I Mean Often - They Will Go To Mediums If All Else Fails In The Enquiry.