Writing from
scratch can be like thrusting a fist inside your yawning mouth, fingers probing
painfully and trying to find that one deep throbbing true spot in the jumble of
guts. There is always that temptation to cheat, to settle on a false bottom and
to build its legitimacy on a palace of words; which is where I am still stuck
now. Hope I have to courage to go more distant than that.
An unexpected book-movie connection: Cat People and John Dickson Carr
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Most serious horror-film buffs will be familiar with the swimming-pool
scene from the 1942 film *Cat People* – famous for its use of the power of
suggest...
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