"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."
"When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control."
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Source: High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.
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