Muriel Gray on RCH
Mar 25, 2007 17:11:10 GMT -5
Post by Gloomy Sundae on Mar 25, 2007 17:11:10 GMT -5
Muriel Gray, ex-Tube presenter turned horror author, in conversation with Paul Kane at Shadow-Writer:
I read somewhere that you used to go into libraries and get ghost stories out.
I did, yes. And The Pan Book of Horror was obviously a huge influence. There were some terrible, terrible stories, y'know? But I was a huge fan of horror, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes was one of the writers in there. I thought he was a kind of Graham Greene of horror writing, always wrote about bed-sits and people with big bellies, husbands in cardigans chopping their wives' heads off. In fact I was watching…my husband bought me a DVD set of The Hammer House of Horror, do you remember that - the kind of 1970s, hour-long thing? Zoe Ball's dad's in one. We were watching it the other night, 'The House that Spurted Blood' or something; it's just fantastic. I love all that stuff…I love literary horror too (laughs).
There's also a photo of her reading R. C. H.'s Kamtellar!
I read somewhere that you used to go into libraries and get ghost stories out.
I did, yes. And The Pan Book of Horror was obviously a huge influence. There were some terrible, terrible stories, y'know? But I was a huge fan of horror, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes was one of the writers in there. I thought he was a kind of Graham Greene of horror writing, always wrote about bed-sits and people with big bellies, husbands in cardigans chopping their wives' heads off. In fact I was watching…my husband bought me a DVD set of The Hammer House of Horror, do you remember that - the kind of 1970s, hour-long thing? Zoe Ball's dad's in one. We were watching it the other night, 'The House that Spurted Blood' or something; it's just fantastic. I love all that stuff…I love literary horror too (laughs).
There's also a photo of her reading R. C. H.'s Kamtellar!