Dani Soncasie on the Horror That Made Her!

Dani Soncasie, an indie comic creator and horror author from Missouri, discusses three influences that shaped her work: Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour, the film The Lost Boys, and Garth Ennis’s Hellblazer comic series. Read at age fourteen while recovering from amputation and surgery, The Witching Hour demonstrated how supernatural fiction could weave together history, family, and human complexity. The Lost Boys influenced her approach to vampires as monstrous creatures, her use of humor in horror, and her focus on family relationships and hidden knowledge. Hellblazer taught her that magic requires rules, limitations, and consequences that affect characters deeply. These influences inform her graphic novel Blood of the Forsaken, adapted from her 2006 novel One Foot in Darkness, which explores vampires and supernatural forces within a Midwestern family setting.

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