It was a book about trauma, being trapped in a situation you cannot change, and strange ways survivors must learn to love themselves and each other when there is little hope for a better future. It wasn’t just blood and guts and scary monsters. Then, I wrote Ghost River and my views changed almost immediately after seeing the bleak landscape that came out of my imagination. I thought they gave away too much of the story and if you were reading a genre with expectations like horror, you shouldn’t be surprised by blood and guts (for example) when they show up. Do you think there’s a hard line between them being necessary and being overkill?Ĭ.R.: I used to be an Anti-Content Warning Crusader.
Ghost River was your debut novel, and I love that you prefaced it with a content warning, a fairly new practice for writers. He’s also the author of the chilling horror novel, Ghost River, released earlier this year. It’s finally October, and this month I want to showcase some of my favorite authors in the horror genre! I’d like to welcome Chad Ryan as my very first Author Spotlight! Chad is the co-founder of fresh-off-the- press indie publishing company, Lost Boys Press with Ashley Hutchison.
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