That was a difficult transition, not for me, but for the people around me. After four years, they've adjusted to seeing me in a different light. Well, most of them have. Within my work, I constantly find myself running into the brick wall of taboo, and what is unsayable. It is my firm belief that horror is among the most moral of 'genres'.
Bad things happen, but they are portrayed honestly as such.
However, to properly illuminate the pain and misery caused by a certain action, you must explore it in some depth. I never want to write, say, a rape scene which is not painful and sickening to read. When I'm done with the reader, I want them to have nightmares about that rape, and it's consequences. I feel I owe it to anybody who has undergone that trauma not to underplay or make light of the situation. Nobody reading this hypothetical rape scene is going to walk away unmoved.