You won't see through my eyes

[sovay]

If you ever wanted to know about my childhood fears, a major answer can be found in Ian McDowell's "Formative Frights: Weird Fiction Writers on What Scared Them as Kids," along with similarly early creep-outs from Gwendolyn Kiste, Gemma Files, LC von Hessen, John Langan, Nadia Bulkin, and Ramsey Campbell, among others. Now, of course, I write endlessly about shape-change and transformation, the interplay of faces and masks. See also that one time I wrote a sex scene with a bog body.

Comments

[sovay]

Good accompanying music--will check these out.

I thought everybody had really good reasons for being frightened of the things they were frightened of! And the ways that people make stories of what they see, which are often worse than the things themselves.

[asakiyume]

Your explanation for your fear of masks totally resonates.