My fans often ask me: “H.G., where do you get your story ideas?”
Easy! Real life.
My horror tales are 100% authentic to reality. All fiction is anchored in truth, after all. And the truth is: the unthinkable can happen to anyone. So I always like to start with a character. A character haunted by her past, let’s say, reeling from a personal tragedy. And she can’t quite grasp it yet, but she’s caught the attention of a monstrous evil.
She knows it’s coming. She’s already locked her doors, she’s called the police, she’s taken every step a reasonable person should take as the sun sets.
But the night is long. And dark.
Full of terrors.
And away we go . . .
—H. G. Kane, “Where Do His Spine-Tingling Tales Come From?” 2017, hgkaneofficial.com