The genre we describe as horror today has its roots in the romance and Gothic genres of the eighteenth century, which in turn were influenced by the pre-Romantic movement known as the Graveyard Poets,

In Germany it was called the Schauerroman (the shudder-novel), where the genre began to incorporate elements of the early machine age. German writer E. T. A. Hoffmann was fascinated by automata, and, inevitably, automata that seem to be alive, blurring the lines between biology and clockwork.

When I was thinking about my own ghost stories, I knew I wanted to write a few of them where place would be integral to the haunting. But I am also interested in how a person may unleash the unholiness of a place, as Jack Torrance does in The Shining.