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"I never felt like I was an expert in horror,"

Oct. 9, 2018 by James Ashley

"I never felt like I was an expert in horror," he said.

Clasen, who was an undergrad at the Australian Institute of Criminology, studied in the Netherlands and in New England and then graduated from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He has since become an editor of horror anthologies such as The Dark Crystal and The Darkest Dreams which are published by the Danish publisher TÜJ. He says he is now a prolific author on the works of authors such as James Joyce to name a few.

Clasen first started reading horror in 2005 when he found his first page in a novel by Edgar Allan Poe named The Darkest Dreams . "I was a little bit scared. I felt like people were looking at me as if I was a zombie. I was getting up from my desk and I got really annoyed with my body," Clasen recalled in his blog post, "I wanted to know why I couldn't make them feel better about themselves, or perhaps I was just trying to make them feel better for their own life."

Clasen said he was fascinated by the subject when he read an excerpt from a book called The Dark Dark World . "I had this vivid memory of being in a dark, claustrophobic, and scary place when it was dark, like a nightmare," said Clasen. "I felt like I had lost something, and so I decided to look for the source of my memory." Clasen discovered several books that had been written about Lovecraft by other authors. While researching books on the book, Clasen discovered the story of the ghost of Mary Shelley , written in the 1930s and 1940s. "I was so fascinated by that story that I thought in some ways I wasn't allowed to read anything else," Clasen said.