Amongst fans of horror literature he's being celebrated and admired - he even has his own action figure to honor him! - and who's interested in fantasy stories from the underworld simply has to have read his books: Richard Kadrey. The author born in San Francisco wrote books like Sandman Slim,but he's working mostly as a photograph for fetish arts.

What are the influences to your books or short stories, how do you get your ideas?

Richard Kadrey: Ideas are what's in the air. What you bump into everyday. What you read. What you hear. What you see on TV or in movies.† Ideas come out of being alive and being aware. Influences work the same way as ideas. I can name a few authors, movies and musicians. Jim Thompson. Richard Stark. William Burroughs. JG Ballard. Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpahís westerns. Dario Argento. Lustmord. X. The Doors. Iggy and the Stooges. I don't know if throwing out names means anything but all of those artists bleed together in my head and end up in my books.

Is there something you always do during the process of writing?

Richard Kadrey: I almost always listen to music. Instrumental only. My lyrics. No words to get in the way. A lot of ambient and industrial, but Iím also a fan of a early Tangerine Dream. Up through about 1976. Stratosfear was their last decent album and even that was marginal. They havenít done a damned thing worth listening to since.

There's an action figure of yourself available. What did you think about it when you first heard about the plans of a figure like that?

Richard Kadrey: I didn't know it existed until a friend showed it to me. It was the funniest goddam thing I ever saw. I gave one to my mother but I don't think she got the joke.

You're also a photographer. Would you call this a hobby or is taking photographs more like another job for you?

Richard Kadrey: When I finish a novel my brain is so full of words that Iím almost incoherent. I have to get away from words to I go to Photography, a purely visual medium. After a while, my brain fills full of images and I run back to words. Writing and photography are the cure for each other.

Does writing a new book have any consequences on your private life?

Richard Kadrey: Only in terms of how well itís going or not going. On days when I accomplish nothing I tend do be an angry asshole so I generally stay very quiet and away from people.

Thanks for the interview with Richard Kadrey by: Simone Holmer

(2011)

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