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williemeikle · 10-13-2010, 03:10 PM

I love mixing and matching

THE INVASION is SCiFi/Horror
THE AMULET and THE SIRENS are Crime/Dark Fantasy
THE VALLEY is Historical/Dark Fantasy
THE CHRONICLES OF SETON is Historical/Sword and Sorcery (as is my Watchers collection in paperback)

Others are straight genre pieces

ISLAND LIFE and CRUSTACEANS are creature features, THE ROAD HOLE BUNKER MYSTERY is straight crime, and CARNACKI: HEAVEN AND HELL traditional style ghost stories.

But you know what... they're ALL about the struggle of the dark against the light. The time and place, and the way it plays out is in some ways secondary to that. And when you're dealing with archetypes, there's only so many to go around, and it's not surprising that the same concepts of death and betrayal, love and loss, turn up wherever, and whenever, the story is placed.

10-13-2010, 03:10 PM	#2
williemeikle Are the stars right yet? Posts: 209 Karma: 250270 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Newfoundland Device: none	I love mixing and matching THE INVASION is SCiFi/Horror THE AMULET and THE SIRENS are Crime/Dark Fantasy THE VALLEY is Historical/Dark Fantasy THE CHRONICLES OF SETON is Historical/Sword and Sorcery (as is my Watchers collection in paperback) Others are straight genre pieces ISLAND LIFE and CRUSTACEANS are creature features, THE ROAD HOLE BUNKER MYSTERY is straight crime, and CARNACKI: HEAVEN AND HELL traditional style ghost stories. But you know what... they're ALL about the struggle of the dark against the light. The time and place, and the way it plays out is in some ways secondary to that. And when you're dealing with archetypes, there's only so many to go around, and it's not surprising that the same concepts of death and betrayal, love and loss, turn up wherever, and whenever, the story is placed.