But I grew up in a very Asian household that saw such things as entities minding their own business in their own planes of existence. TLU : We talked paranormal energies in an earlier question, but I got to ask about your own belief in the paranormal what do you think it is that goes bump in the night, the source(s) of the cold spots, the creak in the stairs, the feeling of being watched.ĬK: I believe that there is a definite possibility that there are things in the world that we don’t understand yet. Home invasion scares me a fair bit-you don’t want to know how many knives are casually hidden in strategic spots throughout my apartment due to this nervousness. I am, however, very troubled by the idea of strangers in my den. A few of the places I’ve lived in may have had ghosts, and I wasn’t very bothered by them. If you had to choose one, which would you consider the scariest?ĬK: Home invasions. TLU : It seems like among some of the most popular subgenres of horror, it comes down to domestic horror, it involves haunted houses or home invasions. I really just wanted them to have a campy urban legend-kind of story to tell each other, one that only superficially touches on what is really going on in the house, but people have Opinions about it, and I’m delighted. The response to the random myth I came up with was fascinating. TLU : Which is the bigger “monster” in the novella: the house or the friend group with their complex past? Both hold their own secrets, but maybe in the case of the house, it never hid the tragedy surrounding the buried-alive bride.ĬK: Definitely the friends. Related: 21 Haunted House Books That Will Leave You Sleeping with One Eye Open I just feel fortunate that people often see what I’m trying to do with my work.

I basically staple whatever it is that is rattling around inside my head to paper. I’d love to get your take on this dynamic, and how you managed to so keenly reflect this in the book.ĬK: Oh, god. One thing that I adored about the book is how you cast the characters’ moods and energies onto the house, as though they are as much in control of the house’s various spaces as much as the house can feed on a person’s own energy.

TLU : Nothing But Blackened Teeth is the sort of book that scares as much as it refreshes the maybe skeptical reader who has read their fair share of the genre.

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