“I find those the more horrifying questions. “The things that really frighten me are more existential things, the things that go to the heart of and threaten or question human nature,” Ward explains. Ward’s fiction is notable for its dark and often uncomfortable psychological themes, though her stories include very few of the tropes and tricks most frequently associated with the horror genre and generally delight in turning expectations about what these stories should do and be on their heads. But I think that’s the only reason I can write it-because if I’m not afraid I don’t really know how you’d expect the reader to be afraid.” “I cannot watch horror films and I find horror really difficult to read. “I am a complete scaredy-cat,” Ward admits with a laugh. But the author herself isn’t much a fan of the genre as a consumer. In a genre that can often seem full to bursting with blood and gore, detailed descriptions of violent deaths, and literal monsters lurking in dark corners, her books have a distinctly more psychological bent, telling stories that are frequently as heartbreaking as they are disturbing. Catriona Ward is not your typical horror author.
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