Writing creepy stuff...

My work is usually creepy.  I like to make readers experience the story - and creepy works well.  Everyone I know tends to worry about where the inspiration for dark things comes from.  Fiction is fictitious.  A writer using creepy is like a painter using Payne's Grey.  It's just a tool in the kit.  I had a creative writing prof who insisted that for my last assignment I couldn't write a horror or thriller or creepy-at-all short story.  I wrote the story, but it was missing a color.