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Sleep: the stepchild of Death.
Nancy A. Collins / Fiction Writer
Sleep
Stepchild
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My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.
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Faces
Felt
Forty
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
Nancy A. Collins / Fiction Writer
Loudly
Praises
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If it doesn't make you sweat, it's not worth it. If it's not hard to get, why go for it?
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Not Worth It
Risk
Sweat
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I'm very excited about taking over the reins on Vampirella. I've really been enjoying myself so far.
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Reins
Enjoying
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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Frozen
Appeal
Teenagers
Vampires
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Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
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Classic
Hero
Double
Vampires
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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Personal Life
Vampire
Life People Way
Celebrities
Fictional
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
Nancy A. Collins / Fiction Writer
Attractive
First Love
Love Always Your
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
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Cathartic
Confronting
Human Society
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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Insist
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Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
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Caught
Creepy
Eerie
Playboy
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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Wagner
Best Work Your
Agent
Author
Best Work Look
Charges
Crook
Editor
Edward
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I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'
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Peter
Christopher
Dark Shadows
Dracula
Hammer
Lee
Shadows
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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Cradle
Humans
Grave
Harshly
Vampires
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My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.
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Wisdom
Grief
Powerful
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