After the euphoria of graduating from my MA, I’ve had a massive dump of realisation that I have a novel to finish. To date, I have three more chapters to write, one of which is a zombie fight showdown, where … spoiler alert … one of my key characters snuffs it. There is also a gruesome dream sequence and a heartfelt scene that will have me weeping as I write it. I’m often asked why I write in the genre I find, personally, so frightening. Paul Tremblay, an American horror writer who is the master of creeping dread, openly admits he’s scared of everything, and because of that, he implants his fears into his novels. For me, it’s the fear of societal anarchy that feeds my dystopian horror. Growing up, I was a secret horror fiction fan, stashing them between my poetry library book loans long before I started wearing black. However, going to university, leaving London to work in Portsmouth, and then having a baby left me with little time to read fiction. It wasn’t until I joined th...