Linwood Barclay on the Art of Making Everyday Things Terrifying

Linwood Barclay on the Art of Making Everyday Things Terrifying

A few years back I wrote a novel about a serial killer who had a new and interesting way of dispatching his victims. He sabotaged elevators and sent people plunging to their deaths. Many readers told me that after they read that book, they started taking the stairs instead of the elevator whenever they could. I’d freaked them out. They could never look at an elevator the same way again. This is when you feel, as an author, that you’ve really don…