Dark Dreamers

The Dreamspinners Who Weave Nightmares


They lead us through wondrous doors to the dark side of imagination--exposing

our most carefully hidden fantasies...and our deepest fears. Now twenty-six of the world's premier Maestros of the Macabre share their secrets, their goals, their creative terrors... and reveal the voices that called them into a shadowworld of demons and devils.


Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror features detailed interviews with Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Gary Brandner, Ramsey Campbell, Les Daniels, Dennis Etchison, John Farris, Charles L. Grant, James Herbert, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Dean R. Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Graham Masterton, Richard Matheson, Robert R. McCammon, David Morrell, Anne Rice, John Saul, John Skipp, Craig Spector, Whitley Strieber,  Chet Williamson, J. N. Williamson, and Gahan Wilson.


What drives these writers to the keyboard every day to chronicle their dark dreams and nightmares? Stanley Wiater's insightful interviews offers a window into these dark dreamers' nightmare worlds.