The Difference Between Horror and Friday the 13th

Howard Kurtz: I still think that a lot of the public has a misperception of what horror is. The vampire novels were really popular in the early 90s and then right about the time Buffy took off the genre you couldn't sell it in fiction for anything unless you were in Rice. And there was a whole slew of us who lost their contracts and were sent a drift and we had to wait another five years before the genre came back. Barnes and Noble doesn't even have a horror section because the word itself is turning people off.