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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 25, 2008 15:51:52 GMT
^down for me as well  i'll check again later. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 25, 2008 17:11:41 GMT
What a top interview Johnnie.
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Post by bushwick on Nov 25, 2008 17:58:50 GMT
Excellent interview mate. I do like the cut of Hutson's jib, he's got a good attitude...
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 25, 2008 18:40:04 GMT
brilliant interview johnnie i for one really enjoyed it, i thought the questions were very nice and illicited great responses.
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Post by allthingshorror on Nov 25, 2008 19:06:48 GMT
Cheers all - interviews were done by the old standard - email.  He's been really nice in his emails towards me - he's also done another interview for me about his love of the Pan horror books - an expansion on what he talked about in Steve Jones' Dark Voices book. That will surface when my Pan stuff is finished. I gave him a list of other Van Thal collections he hadn't heard about - and he was kind enough to agree to sign my copy of The Termintator. Top man in my book - and would be nice to meet him one day. |
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Post by andydecker on Nov 25, 2008 19:37:26 GMT
Nice intrview, good questions. Hutson is right, btw, I am reading him since 20 years or longer  God, I feel old. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Nov 25, 2008 22:16:41 GMT
Seemed as solid as a rock.
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Post by pulphack on Nov 26, 2008 11:38:57 GMT
more great stuff, johnny. i've never been a big fan of mr h, but i do like his attitude. write what you want, do it the max, and screw the cliques - they don't pay the mortgage. readers do.
nice to see that twenty years haven't dimmed the man who once graced kerrang! in a battered leather singing the praises of iron maiden and contributing a nicely daft rock horror tale. wish i still had that issue - bet you know which one it is! if anyone does, put me out of my misery!
there were also some good comments on cross-genre writing, too. however its dressed up, a story is all about keeping the reader turning the page. there are a lot of 'lit' writers who could do with remembering that, yet are praised while the likes of mr h are derided. not that it looks like he gives a toss. but credit where it's due, after all...
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Post by erebus on Feb 1, 2009 20:33:59 GMT
Ah the man whose work got me reading horror ( pan excluded ) That slugs cover pulled me in many moons ago and I never looked back.
Breeding Ground is nasty but Relics , Victims, and Nemesis take the throne as the pioneers in nastyness. Incidently did you like The vibrator part in this book ?
Adore Shaun Hutson. And I have been privaliged to have met the guy . Signed my Books including Chainsaw Terror and told me secretly what he really thought of his fellow authours Herbert and Barker . My lips are sealed there.
If your lucky he writes down your name and if your lucks in you pop up in his future works as a character.
He has most certainly toned down with age and his latest book BODYCOUNT dare I say it is a little bit of a dissapointment. But that said I can't and will never knock the guy ( his football team is another matter ) For me Shauns the best.
PS anyone catch my username.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 1, 2009 21:50:23 GMT
PS anyone catch my username. Yeah, but i didn't think Shaun Hutson first of all - there used to be a vampire 'zine called Erebus Rising and that's what came to mind.  I think I've read most of his early books, but none of the later ones. Bit like James Herbert in that respect. As they became 'better' writers I kind of lost interest which is entirely unreasonable but there you have it. After Slugs, the meat-eaters favourite Erebus is probably the one I most, uh, 'enjoyed' ( Breeding Ground certainly has its moments!), and that on account of the really depressing ending which, i thought, was perfect. He really makes you suffer. There's a scene set in an abattoir involving a circular saw .... and the infamous exploding maggot-infested dick .... squirmy thrills. |
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God, I feel old.
