Horror writers make their living out of creating gruesome and frightening characters and scenarios, but do they ever get scared? It seems that many of them do and although a lot of famous horror writers have drawn inspiration from classic horror novels, they have also confessed to being spooked by them.
Here are a few examples:
Anne Rice
Best known as the author of Interview with the Vampire, Rice also wrote the Vampire Chronicle series of books, so is well-versed in the genre. However, she confessed to not being able to finish perhaps the most famous vampire novel of them all – Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Rice told The Guardian in 2019: “This so scared, so shocked, so horrified me, that I abandoned the book and took it back to the library. I have not, to this day, read Dracula in its entirety.”
Ruth Ware
In a Dark, Dark Wood is every bit the psychological horror-thriller the title suggests, but its author Ruth Ware isn’t immune to the frights herself. The book that most gave Ware the chills was Shirley Jackson’s classic The Haunting of Hill House. Ware says: “It has one of the best and most unsettling opening paragraphs I’ve ever read. It sets the tone for a book in which Jackson rarely gives the reader a moment’s respite – what begins with a creeping sense of unease, mounts eventually to sheer terror.”
Stephen King
You would think that the master of modern horror writing would not get scared, but he confesses to struggling to settle down at night after reading one particular book. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters forced King to admit that “Several sleepless nights are guaranteed.” Scaring Stephen King is one huge seal of approval.
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