What gives you goose bumps or makes you turn on all the lights and wait bleary-eyed for morning?

I have some bizzare fears which I can't explain but cause an actual physical reaction. Certain fabrics make my skin crawl. The thought of being wrapped in them makes me feel claustrophobic, and even touching them makes my skin crawl and itch all over. I know this is, to a great degree, psychological, but I don't know where it comes from or why it happens. I also have a somewhat irrational fear of white masks/blank faces, and gurneys. Those last few things show up in one form or another in every novel I've ever written. They really do trigger a flight response that I have to consciously subdue. It's crazy.

Now, what would keep me up all night?

In the third Exorcist movie, with George C. Scott -- if you've seen it, I'm willing to bet you already know what I'm going to say -- I am terrified of that creepy white figure that goes after the nurse at the end of the long hallway. I've seen the movie a few times and still have to cover my eyes when that part comes on, and if I'm anywhere in the dark alone, I check behind me a few times all along the way to make sure it (she?) isn't behind me.

What's next for the Hollower? Have you picked out a fresh set of victims for him?

After Found You, the Hollowers will be retired, at least for a while.  They do come up by name here and there in other books as one of the few creatures capable of straddling dimensions and existing for endless periods of time in the place between them, but otherwise, they're going to have to go pick on another dimension to find food.
 
What's next for you?
 
I'm working on getting a ghost story finished.  It's tentatively titled The Funeral Parties.  There's no direct connection to The Hollower or Found You, other than a pervasive idea through all my books that there is a place between our dimension and the dimensions of the monsters I bring over to our world, and that in-between place is busy with consciousness and sentience and a good dose of malevolence, too.
 
What's the last book you finished, the book you're currently reading, and the next book on your list? What's the one book you would re-read if you had time?

Currently I'm juggling the end of It and re-reading a collection of Lovecraft that I bought. Next up is Pet Semetary and Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts. I have so many books I haven't even cracked open yet. I'd like to read more Braunbeck, Clegg's The Machinery of Night, and Rosemary's Baby. I suppose that's a problem with living in the movie/video game age -- you see the screen versions of stories so you tend to put off reading the source material you should have read years ago.  If I had time to reread anything, I'd probably re-read Straub's Houses Without Doors -- an amazing and beautifully written collection.
 
Be careful when you let your guard down. That man in the trenchcoat and fedora? He's not Sam Spade.

Contributing editor Rebecca Cantrell sold her house, quit her high tech job, and moved to Hawaii to write a novel. Her first novel, A TRACE OF SMOKE, starts a mystery series set in Berlin in the 1930s. It will be released in May 2009. As of this writing, she lives in Hawaii with her husband and son.