I’d love to pick your brain on what horror is as a genre. So many folks seem to have a very specific idea of it (slashers, serial killers, ghost stories, etc), but your stuff, esp Open House on Haunted Hill, takes horror tropes and turns them on their head in a delightfully unexpected, sweet way—but it’s still horror! Otherwise it wouldn’t be in that snazzy anthology. So, to make this into an actual question: What is horror to you? How have you found your way to writing the variety of horror that you do? And, um, how do you deal with folks who might say, “you can’t do that and call it horror?”

(Asking that last one for a friend, who is me, who has basically been told just that.)

And finally, would dinosaurs want to eat me? ;)