I Fear That A Life Of Death

It Was A Really Strange And Unique Sort Of Process For Me To Adapt My Own Book.

I Wrote One Terrible Manuscript After Another For A Decade And I Guess They Gradually Got A Little Less Terrible. But There Were Many, Many Unpublished Short Stories, Abandoned Screenplays And Novels... A Library Of Congress Worth Of Awful Literature.

It Was A Sort Of Peace I Have Rarely Enjoyed Since. As If We Were The Only Two Souls On Earth—all Of Nature Ours To Enjoy. I Wondered Why A Creator Who Had Dreamt Such Beauty Would Have Slandered It With Such Evil. Such Grief. Why He Had Not Been Content To Leave It Unspoilt. I Still Wonder.

If You're Stephen King And You Have A Massive Body Of Huge-selling Well-respected Work, You Can Pivot And Do Whatever You Want. I Don't Have That Body Of Work, I Don't Have That Audience That's Comfortable With Me Enough Yet To Follow My Bliss With Me.

My Job On 'dark Shadows' Was To Make It Fun And Funny, First And Foremost. It Can Still Be Dark And It Can Still Even Be Gory And Gothic At Times, But It Also Needed To Be Fun And It Needed To Be An Experience That People Would Enjoy Having.