Bentley Little

Bentley Little was born in Arizona a month after his mother attended the world premiere of Psycho. He received his BA in Communications and MA in English and Comparative Literature at California State University Fullerton. His Master’s thesis was the novel The Revelation, which was later published and won the Bram Stoker Award in 1991. Since then, he has written many more novels and his work has been translated into seven different languages. Several of his novels have been optioned for film.

He has appeared in many issues of Cemetery Dance magazine, including Cemetery Dance #64, which was the Bentley Little Special Issue and featured an interview with him and two of his brand new short stories.

When asked in that issue why he writes horror, he answered: "I write horror because I have to. That’s the way my mind works. Those are the ideas that come to me. I’ve never felt limited by the genre. How could I? Horror fiction offers an author the broadest possible canvas on which to work. I have all of the real-world subjects at my disposal that a mainstream writer does—plus the infinite realm of the supernatural. Creatively, there’s nothing else that comes close to this sort of scope, which is why there is nothing I would rather be than a horror writer."

And when asked about his lack of an official website, he stated: "I want to be judged on my work, not on my looks or personality
or whether I have an entertaining lifestyle. Part of this probably comes from the era in which I grew up. For example, in the 1970s, rock stars were like gods. They were these rich, glamorous, untouchable, unapproachable figures. We aspired to be like them. But sometime in the 1980s or 1990s, musicians started wanting to 'keep it real.' They attempted to be more like us, the audience. A very real sense of mystery was lost. I feel the same way about authors who chat online with their fans, who blog about the mundane details of their lives. It doesn’t sit right with me, and I don’t do it."