OH NO COREY NILES IS STUCK IN A HORROR FRANCHISE!

29/8/2022

OH NO I’M STUCK IN A HORROR

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You wake up and find yourself in a horror franchise, what franchise would you prefer to wake up in and why?

While there are so many great choices, I’d have to go with Friday the 13th. I’ll never forget renting the original film from Family Video with my friends on Halloween night in my early teens. We were out in the country at my grandmother’s house, Trick or Treat candy littering the floor, and that movie scared the living daylights out of me. I remember sitting around a campfire later that night, checking the tree line for hockey masks. The next year, I donned a hockey mask with a plastic machete, and I’ve loved those movies, for all the horror and camp, ever since.

Growing up on those movies, and subsequently playing the video game for a large part of the quarantine, cemented my love for the franchise. Furthermore, the knowledge I gained from all that screen time makes me feel like I have my best bet of surviving Jason and his mommy over any other. I can enjoy a nice writer’s retreat in the woods before the carnage begins.

You find yourself as the “Final One” which monster / villain would you most like to go up against ands why do you think you would survive?

As a lifeline jogger, I think I’d have the best shot against the undead ghouls of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Back when the undead took a slow and steady pace.

As a western Pennsylvanian horror writer, I naturally have an admiration for Romero’s work. Some of my favorite jogging and hiking spots in high school were near some of the filming locations used in his films, so I’d have the added benefit of knowing the landscape.

And which creature would you least like to go up against?

The creature from The Thing would probably be the one I’d least like to run into at a high school reunion or a remote Antarctic base. The uncertainty and the paranoia the creature creates might be even worse than the beast itself.

The Thing was the first time I dipped my toes into the waters of psychological horror, and I’ve been in love with the genre ever since. Most horror intrinsically includes psychological elements, but diving deep into them, and exploring both our physical and mental fears, is a passion of mine as a reader, viewer, and writer.

You find yourself in Scooby Doo, which character are you, and who would most like to have as the other members of Mystery Inc?

I’d like to say Velma, but I’d probably be somewhere between Shaggy, searching for food and complaining my blood sugar is low, or an early depiction of a clumsy Daphne, pining after Fred. If we added on Clarice Starling, Dana Scully, Lisbeth Salander, and Jessica Fletcher, I think we’d have a pretty high solve rate, and the small talk in the Mystery Machine would be endlessly fascinating.

Pinhead pops round for an evening of fun, what are you pains and pleasures?

Patience and sitting still are two skills I’ve never been able to master, so anything reminiscent of line at the DMV may be a living nightmare for me. I’ve been known to walk and read as well as pace at my standing desk. While I like to go to bed with a book in my hands each night, reading before I pass out, I don’t think I’d get through a third of my to-be-read list without audiobooks.

That being said, I would endure an endless DMV line for the ability to write and edit a little faster. I’ve built myself up in morning pages to around 1,000 words a day, but I am prone to multiple drafts and rewrites. The horror novella I’ve been working on the better part of a year is still only about halfway through the drafts, and I’ve spent most mornings working on it.

The Wishmaster gives you three wishes

1. You can wish to write in any franchise
2. You can wipe on franchise from the minds of everyone
3. You can date your horror crush

What do you chose?

I’ve been itching to write a good ghost story. I’ve revisited The Haunting of Hill House series more times than I’d like to admit. While I loved Shirley Jackson’s novel for different reasons, he way the TV series explores memory, death, and trauma is brilliant. Having a chance to work on a future Mike Flanagan “The Haunting of...” season would be a dream came true.

Blood & Dirt
by Corey Niles

Vincent depended on his boyfriend, James, to stand up for him—until a violent hate crime results in James’s murder.

Weeks after his funeral, James reappears, perfectly healthy but changed in ways that neither of them can quite understand. Now, Vincent must uncover what truly happened on the night they were attacked.

In the face of an apathetic police force and a growing number of missing gay men, Vincent and James work to identify the criminals who attacked them.

With James scarred from what happened to him in the weeks between his death and rediscovery, Vincent must learn to stand up for himself and face his real monsters or lose James—and himself.

Ebook copies are now available from most major retailers. Print copies will be available soon:

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Corey Niles

Corey Niles was born and raised in the Rust Belt, where he garnered his love of horror. When he isn’t advising college students, he enjoys binge-watching horror movies and traveling to hoard American history in his cheeks like a chipmunk. He hasn’t met a creepy, isolated hiking trail he hasn’t liked.

After studying creative writing and gender and women’s studies as an undergraduate student, he went on to graduate from Seton Hill University with an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction.

In his spare time, he nurses his caffeine addiction and tends to his graveyard of houseplants. He is also a single father of a very fluffy cat named Alexander, who quickly forgot about his humble beginnings.

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