Jasper DeWitt wasn’t always a horror writer.
Long before his work captured the interest of Ryan Reynolds, DeWitt’s storytelling abilities were reserved for his friends. They’d play Dungeons and Dragons together, and their quests were based in the dark domains of the Ravenloft universe.
“To get ideas for these, I would obsessively read horror,” DeWitt told Mashable, “particularly from the heyday of Gothic/supernatural fiction in the late 19th to early 20th century. My friends, noticing this, told me I should try my hand at writing horror myself, since I loved it so much.” Read more…
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