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Horror Author Roundtable
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AOTW: What do you think is the future trend in horror novels?
Gregory Maguire: I think horror and political suspense are going to elide more and more.
F. Paul Wilson: I don't see a current trend, so I'm at a loss as to how to predict a future trend. I think I prefer a trendless genre. Let it go in all directions. That makes it less predictable. Predictability was what killed the horror boom.
Michael Norman: I am not the one to ask.
Fred Saberhagen: Looks like it won't be electronic publishing. I don't know. A lot of people will always want to be safely scared.
Suzy McKee Charnas: Not a clue; a lot depends on what the real world has to offer us by way of horror, since horror often reacts first against that, and then incorporates it (as, for example, a few stories in the late 20th c. set in Nazi concentration camps).
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: Trends are usually seen in retrospect, and we'll know what's going on when we look back, not ahead, which is why there's no point in chasing the market.
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