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<\/a>1. Describe the flavour of your fiction in six words.<\/p>\nThought-provoking, unpredictable, spiritually ambiguous, darkly humorous.<\/p>\n
2. What do you enjoy most about writing horror fiction?<\/p>\n
Absolutely everything. I’ve loved horror movies and books since I was little, so while these days I\u00a0enjoy reading almost any genre, when it comes to writing, I’m happiest when I’m writing horror.
\nOh, and I love the opportunity to give someone the creeps. I recently read a story of mine to my\u00a0classes that I thought was fairly innocuous, but was pleasantly surprised when many of my students\u00a0said it was “freaky.”<\/p>\n
3. Many people enjoy reading stories about undead creatures – ghosts, vampires, zombies.
\nWhat do you think is the appeal?<\/p>\n
I think these three examples appeal on different levels. If I were to oversimplify, I would say\u00a0people like ghosts because it gives them a sense of something beyond death. Vampires is a desire\u00a0for immortality. Zombies… well, for that one, I think it’s more about the characters other than the\u00a0zombies that has the appeal. People want to believe that in a zombie apocalypse, they would be\u00a0able to survive.<\/p>\n
Actually, yes. My story “The Interview” was heavily influenced by mythology, specifically the\u00a0story of Phineus, a Phoenician king who was blinded by Zeus for his ability to see into the future.<\/p>\n 5. Your story \u201cAnother Oldie But Goodie\u201d in Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies (edited by Rayne\u00a0Hall) starts with a retirement home resident hearing music nobody else can hear, and leads to\u00a0raising a long dead person from the grave. Where did the ideas for this story come from?<\/p>\n Thank you for joining us, Paul. May 2013 be a year of many more creative ideas and\u00a0fantastic success.<\/p>\n ==========================<\/p>\n Paul D. Dail is the author of The Imaginings, a supernatural\/horror novel, as well as several other\u00a0horror short stories. While he will quickly tell you that the people he has met in the many places\u00a0that he has traveled have been the best schooling he could get, Paul received his formal education in\u00a0English with a Creative Writing emphasis at the University of Montana, Missoula. Blog and Additional Contact Info:<\/p>\n www.pauldail.com<\/a> \u00a0A horror writer’s not necessarily horrific blog Today, Paul D. Dail, author of The Imaginings, joins us to answer questions about his fiction. 1. Describe the flavour of your fiction in six words. Thought-provoking, unpredictable, spiritually ambiguous, darkly humorous. 2. What do you enjoy most about writing horror fiction? Absolutely everything. I’ve loved horror movies and books since I was little, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,177,263,447,468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-interview","category-fantasy","category-interview","category-scary-scenes","category-short-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>4. Have any of your stories been inspired by mythology?<\/p>\n<\/a>This was originally a flash piece for the Vamplit Publishing blog. The theme for the week\u00a0was “Love in the Cemetery,” I think. Then it was kind of a perfect storm of events that brought the\u00a0actual story together, the biggest of which being when my 99 year-old grandmother, who doesn’t\u00a0move very fast but is still sharp as a tack, informed my father and I one day while we were visiting\u00a0that she had been hearing the song “Ave Maria” at various points throughout the day where no\u00a0one was actually playing it. At that point, I started putting together the story of the nursing home\u00a0resident, and I knew it was her dead husband that was singing to her (don’t worry, this comes out in\u00a0the story pretty early). From there it was a matter of picking out the song, something fitting for the\u00a0time. And the rest of the pieces just fell into place, especially the ending.<\/p>\n<\/a>About Paul D. Dail<\/b><\/p>\n
\nIn addition to his fiction, he has had a non-fiction submission published in The Sun magazine’s\u00a0Reader’s Write section entitled “Slowing Down” about the birth of his daughter.
\nCurrently Paul lives in southern Utah, amid the red rock, sagebrush and pinion junipers. He teaches\u00a0Language Arts and Creative Writing at Tuacahn High School for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n
\nwww.amazon.com\/author\/pauldail<\/a> \u00a0Amazon Author Central page
\n@PaulDail<\/a> \u00a0Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"