For most of my life, horror has been the genre everyone loved, and nobody admitted to loving. The shelf in the back. The paperback you hid inside the dust jacket of something respectable. We pulp people have always known the truth, that the strange and the frightening are not a lesser literature but the oldest one, and for a while it felt like we were the only ones keeping score. We are not the only ones anymore. The accountants have noticed. If you write dark fiction and you