By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead - or behind - everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre.

Every body is a book of blood; Wherever we're opened, we're red.

Flesh is our indisputable commonality. Whatever our race, our religion, our politics we are faced every morning with the fact of our bodies. Their frailties, t…

If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from …

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

These Chinese novels are not perfect according to Western standards. They are not always planned from beginning to end, nor are they compact, any more than lif…

Here is what I wrote about SF. If it has a familiar ring, my publishers liked it well enough to make it into a postcard for publicity purposes. 'I love SF for …