Interview on FHM.com
The lovely Lou Albano interviewed me for FHM.com. Now I can tell people I’ve been in FHM, hahaha.
An excerpt:
Why write horror stories?
I have no idea why I write horror stories. All I know is that I write stories and people say they’re horror. Sure, my stories may have a little blood and gore and weird creatures (most of them, human) in them, but that might just be incidental. I’m glad that people like them though, and that they keep some folks up at night. That’s probably the best compliment I’ve gotten.
Where do you get your ideas from? Do you have personal experiences or are these simply products of an active imagination?
I get story ideas everywhere: books, TV, other people’s stories. You hear the weirdest things from the most normal looking people. I was in the elevator of a posh Makati condo once and I overheard two women talking about how one of their children had bitten the stomach of another, drawing blood. The weird part is that this was all told in a casual, it happens everyday way.
One of my stories, “The Bridge” is taken from an urban legend that circulated in the 80′s about the San Juanico Bridge. We Filipinos have a massive cultural imagination. That’s where I get most of my stories from.
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horror author, third world minimalist, Esquire Philippines Writer at Large
