Ugly Behavior

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I’m not particularly known as a writer of violent stories. But ugly stories, tales about the terrible things we do to ourselves and to each other, have always accounted for a portion of my work. (And of course there are those who believe all tales of crime and horror—whether supernatural or not—are by definition “ugly” and do not care to read about these things. A collection such as Ugly Behavior would not be for them.) Both for those readers who appreciate this sort of thing, and for readers who would prefer not to encounter this other mode of mine, I’ve put all these ugly stories together into one box. It’s that box under your bed, pushed all the way back against the wall, the one that takes some effort to get to, the one your momma doesn’t know about (or at least, the one you like to think she doesn’t know about).

As ubiquitous as that age-old reader’s question, “Where do you get your ideas?” is that question specifically put to crime and horror writers, “Why do you want to write of such things?” or perhaps more to the point, “Why would you want to tell such an ugly story?”

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