On episode 5 of the Neighborhood Bookstore podcast, bestselling author David Morrell (creator of Rambo) discusses his Bram Stoker Award-winning horror novel CREEPERS.

In this episode:

• Researching and writing an urban exploration (UrbEx) thriller
• Writing in “real time”
• The fascination of life frozen in time
• Never getting over The Wild Bunch, and Peckinpah’s influence on writing action in First Blood
• Combining thriller, horror, mystery, and history
• Writing the weird-but-true thing
• Readers feel more than they understand
• Being a fan of James Grady
• Dan Brown . . . IYKYK
• The limiting nature of modern media
• How Creepers the novel became Do Not Enter the (forthcoming) movie
• Writing a western, and what Taylor Sheridan got wrong
• Edgar Allen Poe’s theory of composition
• John Barth’s triangulation of the senses: 3 senses in every scene.