David Morrell Talks Creepers

In this episode:

• Researching and writing an urban exploration (UrbEx) thriller

• Writing in “real time”

• The fascination of life frozen in time

• Never getting over The Wild Bunch, and Peckinpah’s influence on writing action in First Blood

• Combining thriller, horror, mystery, and history

• Writing the weird-but-true thing

• Readers feel more than they understand

• Being a fan of James Grady

• Dan Brown . . . IYKYK

• The limiting nature of modern media

• How Creepers the novel became Do Not Enter the (forthcoming) movie

• Writing a western, and what Taylor Sheridan got wrong

• Edgar Allen Poe’s theory of composition

• John Barth’s triangulation of the senses: 3 senses in every scene.