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Speaking Horror: A Conversation with Author Vignesh Sivasankar.
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Thank you so much for joining us today, Vignesh. I will start with the obvious question what set you off on the journey that began came The Ten Commandments of Evil and what would you say inspired you the most for writing these stories?
Thank you Ramya for inviting me for this interviews. AMAs that's an obvious question of how the Ten Commandments of Evil that came out into the market. I've been writing for some time now, I've posted a lot of short stories online and I've done a lot of contests and competition on writing per se
Thank you so much for sharing that vignesh. It's really nice to know that your first reader and critic is also your wife, so yeah, thanks for that. So The Ten Commandments of Evil has found mention among the top horror novels of the year and has made it to the Usaiti Pursuit shortlist. Many congratulations on this stupendous achievement. Were you in some ways surprised by the response to your book?
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But yeah, winning something is definitely a surprise. But as far as the other question is concerned, why do I think that this book differs from the other ones? I've read lots of Indian horror stories wherein the core objective of the writer basically tends to scare the audience. Yeah, that's the obvious reason why audience pick a horror book. But there are many instances wherein there is very minimal story or very less of story content in the book
I think you made a good point there with Vignage about how Indian horror novels still have a long way to go. Personally, I have come across a few of them that were way too thin on the the plot and we're more written with the obvious angle to spook or creep out the readers. So, yeah, end of the day, the audience do resonate with a good story, right? So my next question is about the horror genre of writing
But there is a beautiful story of fiction, there is a literature that they need to absorb and see and if they do that, then sure, we will also see brilliant writers who are coming up who can give great stuff on horror writing per se. And I'm looking for a future where there are good horror writers and intelligent readers who would absorb and understand the nittygritty of creating something all beautiful and wonderful
So I'm talking about Stephen King and Terry Pratchett and the likes. So this actually makes me wonder about how human nature works in strange ways when you think about it. We work so hard to make our homes and our neighborhoods safer, and then we actively seek out things that will make us afraid. Ghost stories, urban legends, scary movies. We actually hunt down the darkness and we revel in it. Why do you think that is so weird?
Science and technology has just explored our universe maybe 0.1% maybe and with that we have been empowered with so much of knowledge and there are still unexplored things that would keep coming up and our minds will look out for those things and until then it's the stories that would help us find it and that's the reason why we are looking for the ghost stories or horror per se
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