Jay Wilburn, what scares you? What scares me? I could answer something sad like failure or loss, but for me it’s still the dark. I see things in the dark upon waking or moving through the house or outdoors that still startle me. Dark fiction writers should maintain some level of fear of the dark.…

Michael Kellar, what scares you? As a horror writer, I exploit other people’s fears. My answer would be that I am most fearful that someone would find out what it is that truly scares me. That would be my Kryptonite. It is an old magical belief that knowing someone’s true name gives you power over…

K.R. Smith, what scares you? It’s not the ghosts or goblins that scare me. It’s being stuck on the side of some vertical cliff face where I can’t move up or down without the fear of falling and everything I touch is slippery. I’ve had too many nightmares like that, yet I seem drawn toward…

Lance Davis, what scares you? When my son was six months old, my wife and I spent almost a week with him in a children’s hospital. He ended up being fine and all was good. But that event has become the basis for which I weigh almost everything against. I realized nothing in the world…