Neil explained that before you meet someone you can believe anything about them you want, which is kind of how we have heroes. We don't think that they are like other people, but they are. Your work has been linked to the occult. All the occult means is ladies wearing too much black and silver jewelry giving me strange presents. He also went on to explain that occult literally means hidden.
People think that hidden equates bad.
Neil thinks that what they may not realize is that the great secrets of the world are sitting there in libraries if people would just go and look it up. There is some of me in all my characters, even the nasty ones. That is what makes them real. I used to wear gray, but there are too many shades of gray and you can really get things wrong. Black is a great color.