Del Howison Interview on the Making of Midian Unmade!!!

Over at the Diabolique Magazine official site there’s a new interview with Del Howison about the making of Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed which was officially released today nationwide. It’s a good interview with some great information on the making of the book. Here’s a sample to wet your appetites:

Diabolique: How were the stories included in the collection selected?

Howison: It was actually more grueling than you may expect. It was certainly more grueling than Joe Nassise and I expected. We had certain authors in mind that we wanted to invite into the book, but we also made sure there was room for other writers, ones not on our radar or just starting out who were offering us a dynamite piece. So we put out a call and received about 1,000 entries for the remaining 6 or so spots. We broke the submissions in two, with Joe and I each taking half. If either of us knew the author we had the other editor read the story so as not to be swayed by the name. Stories that passed the first reading were read by the opposite editor and the remaining stories that passed both readings were put in one pile and whittled down. At that point we used criteria like: if we already had a story featuring a particular character, we tried not to include another one. There were some good stories that we had to pass on just because of reasons like that. Or, if the story was so embedded with Cabal mythos that an unfamiliar reader couldn’t enjoy it as a straight tale, we tended to let them slide. It came out well but there were a lot of tough decisions between us.

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