You are now listening to post-mortem with Mick Harris,

where the most influential voices in horror cinema

will spill their guts, literally.

To the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garris.

I'm Mick Garris and this is post-mortem. The world of horror and the fantastic knows few boundaries.

It can be grounded at the Bates Motel in a mother-loving maniac with a twisted sexual palette and a butcher knife in the shower,

or it can be set on a commercial spaceship with a crew battling an alien xenomorph.

Fantasy, science fiction, and horror have always overlapped and made for friendly

bedfellows. Horror can take place down the street as zombies infest them all, or in a created weave world where entire

foundations are built societies of different creatures and creations in

confounding combinations. We can find our fears everywhere. On one end of the

spectrum, Stephen King usually tells stories set in a very real world, one we

recognize and live in and then takes a turn into the supernatural.

At the other end, Neil Gaiman will create new worlds, new races, new planets, and weave

them so realistically that we believe they could exist.

Do exist.

Gaiman's stories are dense, wildly imaginative, and deeply human,

and they cross over into many media,

from short stories and novels to comic books, to television, to film.

He is the quintessential storyteller whose work crosses genres. Drama, science fiction, fantasy, horror, humor, historical

legends all meet in his very singular mind. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror were long partners in a ghetto,

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