Between Two Thorns

I started reading fantasy as a kid and grew into a love of science fiction (facilitated by high school friends who fed me anthologies – thanks, Mike!) but in many ways I’ve always been an urban fantasy guy, long before it took off in the late 80s. I realized after-the-fact that what I used to think of as a straight-up love of horror (old monster movies like The Wolfman and Frankenstein, newer ones like Puppet Master or Hell Raiser, novels by H.P. Lovecraft) was at least partially about escaping into supernatural worlds that were just around the corner from reality. Though I still love what I think of as the shadow aspect of horror, a lot of what I wanted was to believe, for a little while, in a magical world.

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