Today is the turn of Thana Niveau, Thana Niveau lives in a crumbling gothic tower in Wicker Man country. She shares her life with fellow horror scribe John Llewellyn Probert, in a Victorian library filled with arcane books and curiosities.
All her life Thana has been drawn to (some might say obsessed with) the darker aspects of life. She was a fearful child, plagued by nightmares and anxiety. Horror saved her. Scary films gave her an outlet for all that darkness and fear became her friend. Jason and Freddy were her childhood companions. On the literary side, Poe was her first great horror love, followed swiftly by Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell. Their stories frightened her while at the same time inspiring her. She still had nightmares, but now they were more like visits from a slightly sadistic muse. Writing all the scary stuff down turned it from a curse into a blessing.
Although she’s been writing all her life, she’s only recently begun to publish and she has had the great pleasure to appear in anthologies alongside some of her favourite writers in the genre.
All her life Thana has been drawn to (some might say obsessed with) the darker aspects of life. She was a fearful child, plagued by nightmares and anxiety. Horror saved her. Scary films gave her an outlet for all that darkness and fear became her friend. Jason and Freddy were her childhood companions. On the literary side, Poe was her first great horror love, followed swiftly by Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell. Their stories frightened her while at the same time inspiring her. She still had nightmares, but now they were more like visits from a slightly sadistic muse. Writing all the scary stuff down turned it from a curse into a blessing.
Although she’s been writing all her life, she’s only recently begun to publish and she has had the great pleasure to appear in anthologies alongside some of her favourite writers in the genre.
Can you tell us
little bit about yourself?
I’m originally from
the States but have called the UK home for about 10 years. And I’ve loved
horror all my life. Scary films and books gave me an outlet for my natural
anxiety and fear but writing my own stories was even more fun. What better way
to shake off the remnants of a nightmare than to inflict it on someone else?
I’ve got quite a few stories floating around out there and in September I
launched my first short story collection, From Hell to Eternity (Gray Friar
Press).
I live with my
partner and fellow horror scribe John Llewellyn Probert in a gothic Victorian
library deep in the heart of the original Wicker Man country. And by the time
you read this we’ll be married, having tied the knot on Halloween.
Why did you decide
to submit a story to this anthology?
I had never written
a Christmas story before and always wanted to explore the idea of evil snow.
Can you tell us
what to expect from your story?
Chionophobia
hopefully! A freak storm buries the UK in snow one Christmas. But the snow has
some strange qualities, as the undeserving characters in the story soon
discover.
What was the best
and the worst Christmas present you ever received?
I don’t think there
ever was a worst one but I’ll never forget the best: an Irish setter puppy who
was my best friend for the next 14 years.
Who or what would
you least like to be haunted by at Christmas?
The Slender Man or
the demons from SINISTER and INSIDIOUS.
Can you tell us
about any future projects?
I have a few new
stories coming out: “Tentacular Spectacular” in Steampunk Cthulhu; “Xibalba” in
Exotic Gothic 5; “Death Walks En Pointe” in Bite-Sized Horror 2 and “Beneath
the Ice” in Cthulhurotica 2.
I’m also working on
a novel, a haunted house story partly inspired by the crumbling gothic tower we
live in.
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