Jennifer M. Contino from The Pulse spoke with Leah Moore and John Reppion, the headlining writing team for Gene Simmons House of Horrors #1. An excerpt from the story is as follows:

John Reppion and Leah Moore have been getting not just their feet, but most of their legs wet in the horror genre this past year. Now the two are working on one of the Gene Simmons' Comics Group tales in his House of Horrors volume. They told us what it was like working with Jeff Zornow on their "Into The Woods" tale.

The Pulse: How did the two of you become a part of the new Gene Simmons projects?

John Reppion: "We were approached by Tom Waltz on behalf of Gene and IDW to see if we wanted to get involved with the flagship title for Simmons Comics Group, the horror anthology called Gene Simmons House of Horrors. We wrote up some rough ideas for a story and passed them on. Tom, Chris Ryall and Gene approved the ideas and we went from there."

The Pulse: When you were first getting into the comics industry, did you think you'd be doing so much in the horror genre or is this just how things have played out?

Leah Moore: "It’s come as a big surprise to be honest, once we had done Wild Girl and Albion, we were wondering what we’d like to do next and we kept saying to each other how cool it would be to do a horror comic. It’s a case of be careful what you wish for really as now we’re doing loads of horror comics! Its great fun though, Jeff Zornow has been an angel to work with (albeit a blood obsessed death murder and maiming angel) and he has translated our script into some of the craziest pages of comic I’ve seen in a while. Its not often we write something that actually makes us go 'eurrgh!' when we open the comic but Jeff has surpassed himself and made us feel quite ill."

The Pulse: What is it about this genre that attracts the creative side of you both?

John Reppion: "Well, I'm a big fan of horror anyway and we tried to do this as EC as possible. Getting Jeff as our artist was a real coup and we knew he'd handle the blood and guts of the whole thing in glorious detail so we just had fun with it really; trying to be as insane and nasty as we could."

The Pulse: Since you signed on to work on Gene Simmons House of Horrors, have you had the chance to talk to Gene Simmons and get his input or has most of your communications been with IDW Publishing?

Leah Moore: "We’ve only spoken through IDW, but we heard he really liked the story and was happy to put it as the headliner on the first issue, which is a huge boost for us. We’re really pleased to be involved with the project, and we think it’ll do really well for Mr Simmons."

The Pulse: So jus what is Gene Simmons House of Horrors? I'm guessing it's not his house after the maid's been missing for a few weeks

John Reppion: "Basically, it's Gene Simmons playing Crypt Keeper to a good old fashioned horror anthology in the vein of Eerie, Tales from the Crypt and all that. Along side ourselves there are stories from the likes of Dwight L. MacPherson (Dead Men Tell No Tales), Sean Taylor (Fishnet Angel), Tom Waltz (Children of the Grave) and Chris Ryall (Zombies vs. Robots) as well as Gene's son Nick. Add to that a Todd MacFarlane cover and you've got a winner surely?"

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