I always liked the challenge of that, how to take an inanimate object and build something around it that's scary.

Whenever I would see horror movies I would be traumatized and I'd have to watch them behind my hands or behind the couch sometimes. So I grew up first with authors like John Bellairs and R.L. Stine for kind of the young adult horror. But I found Stephen King in the sixth grade and that was it. I became a rabid fan.

I did not growing up watching a lot of horror. I wasn't allowed a lot of it and I was a real chicken.

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