ZC: As a director, much of what you do is visually composed. What artists (from any graphic genre) influence you and why?

SD: I recently discovered the art of David Hartman that really excites me. He does great stylized illustrations of "pulpy" monsters. His work is inspiring because it reminds me of pure, unfiltered childhood fears that are so easily lost because of adult rationality. It takes me back to when I was a kid and a Hartman-like, toothy, white eyed, swamp ghoul holding a rusty butcher's cleaver could and DID in fact exist in my parents' dark, musty basement. I miss those monsters and Hartman brings them back for me.

ZC: Old-time radio was your inspiration for the tone and structure of Gibbering Horror. I love old-time radio shows, too. Can you elaborate on which ones are your favorites, and how they helped you create Gibbering Horror?

SD: My aunt bought me a collection of OTR horror tapes on a road trip when I was young, and when it got dark I listened to the tapes, and they completely freaked me out. I don't think I knew what was going on story-wise, but the rough quality of the sound and a woman screaming on the episode, coupled with my imagination traveling down a dark country Arkansas road, really got under my skin.

I really enjoy Arch Obler's Lights Out. Inner Sanctum, Quiet Please, Suspense, Escape, are also some of my favorites. I wanted Ghormley to look and feel like an old time radio horror show looked in my imagination when I listened to an episode. There is a musty pulpiness I wanted to convey. Like in OTR horror shows, the tone of Ghormley can come close to campy pulp but I wanted that impending dread, that dead-cold seriousness that suffocates everything in those stories.

ZC: If you were a monster, which one would you be, and why?

SD: When I was young I thought it would be cool to be a werewolf. In fact, when I hit puberty and I got all hairy, I convinced myself for a short time I was a werewolf. I guess now I'd have to be an amorphous, unspeakable Lovecraft horror...Yog Sothoth or a Shoggoth. That way I could morph and form my shape-shifting mass to all types of indescribable abominations.

ZC: Finally, is there any question you've always been dying to answer but no one ever asked? Now's your chance.