Don't touch that dial.

You're tuned in to the Dread Podcast Network.

You are now listening to Postmortem with Mick Garrus,

where the most influential voices in horror cinema

will spill their guts to the renowned horror director, writer, and producer.

Now here's your host, Mick Garrus.

From Nice Guy Productions, World Headquarters overlooking the glamorous San Fernando Valley,

I'm Mick Garrus, and this is Postmortem.

Movies, television, books, podcasts, we love stories.

And in our genre, the world of horror, we love imaginative stories,

stories with believable and understandable characters in a world that steps boldly into the dark.

Whether the monsters are supernatural or a guy with a knife and a hockey mask,

we are along for the ride, hoping for the new twist, the exciting revelation,

the startling turns of events.

Mostly we talk about the people who make movies and television here on Postmortem,

but some of our most fascinating conversations have been with authors like Stephen King,

Clive Barker, Grady Hendrix, and others.

Almost always they are linked to film adaptations, but I think we also need to make clear

that the books themselves are important to the genre on their own,

and not necessarily as the jumping off point for filmed adaptations.

Before my love of movies and TV, there were the books.

I loved devouring Bradbury and Mathis and Poe and Stoker,

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