Catriona Ward

Catriona Ward is an American and British horror novelist.

Quotes

 * ...When done right, horror is a transformative experience...
 * ...there can be a temptation to sentimentalise or sanitise motherhood in popular culture...
 * ...There’s something about an endless, open landscape where you can be properly lost, where the land can eat you, which isn’t that available to us in this day and age, and it has a particular effect on our minds and souls when we encounter it...
 * ...Reading is a sustained act of telepathy or empathy, and reading horror is even more profound than that: it’s asking people to share real vulnerabilities of yours and open themselves up to their own...
 * ...Just being a woman has an element of body horror to it. Childbirth? That’s some horror right there...
 * Interview with Catriona Ward for The Guardian
 * ...Every monster has a story...
 * ...I started having fun when I realised that a cat would really like to watch a TV show of itself, describing different types of naps...
 * ...Suspense and horror fans really enjoy that reciprocity between the reader and author – you’re playing an elegant game of tennis...
 * 'Every monster has a story': Catriona Ward on her chilling gothic novel