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I Think The Police Are A Major Part Of The Glue That Holds Civilised Life Together. They're Not Highly Paid.

Most Good Police Officers Are Very Open-minded. The Bad Ones Are The Ones Who Are Close-minded.

I Never Actually Wanted To Write Horror, Oddly Enough. It Was A Kind Of Misnomer, Because I Didn't Ever Actually Write Horror In The Sense Of The Genre Known For It. It Was More A Type Of Pigeon-holing In Bookshops.

What Brighton's Got Is A Major Sea Port On Either Side, Good For Importing Drugs, Great For Exporting Cash, Stolen Cars, Stolen Antiques. It's Got The Largest Number Of Antique Shops In The Uk, So It's A Great Place To Fence Stolen Goods. It's Got Tremendous Communication: You've Got The Sea Ports, You've Got The Channel Tunnel, You've Got Gatwick Airport 25 Minutes Away, And London's 50 Minutes Away By Train. So All These Escape Routes... Which Is What Villains Like.

Police Do Get Obsessed With Solving Crimes. You Know, Particularly If There's Been A Murder, It Becomes Personal For The Police Officer Very Quickly, And It Gets To The Family. Even After They've Retired, They Carry On, Not Letting Go.