Brew up some apple cider and sit down with some friends, discuss the stories as you read them. Be creative and write something. I know what you're saying if you've seen Gothic or Haunted Summer . Mary Shelley had to get loaded to compete with three male writers. Now I'm reading Percy, who breaks this creative writer's heart by saying the Poet is so much better than the writer who employs the imagination enough to include nightmares and daydreams and even rhyme in time.
Creative writers use prose and poetry as companions.
If it's poetry you want we have that too. I spent out the summer trying to persuade my educators that there must be a place for Stephen King in the canon. I was deterred over and over again. Do us a favor on these cold autumn nights. You are reader of this page.