Creativity Quote by Eddie Campbell

"There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here" is Eddie Campbell doing a particular kind of artist-intellectual housekeeping: a soft warning that genre talk can get reductive fast. The phrasing sounds casual, even tossed off, but it carries a quiet insistence on boundaries and on what gets lost when you draw them.

The key move is "constraining". Campbell isn’t just agreeing to talk about horror; he’s flagging the artificiality of the box before stepping into it. That’s a very comics-maker instinct. His career has lived in the seams between categories: literary autobiography, crime, historical riffing, formal experimentation. So when he grants the premise of "horror", he’s also telling you he has more to say than the genre label can comfortably hold. "A couple of things" understates on purpose; it implies a larger reservoir of ideas being rationed to fit the frame.

Subtextually, the line nudges the listener (or interviewer) to notice how criticism often works: you don’t discover meaning so much as negotiate what counts as relevant. Campbell is politely asserting editorial control over his own work, refusing the cheap thrill of being flattened into a single shelf in the bookstore. The small, conversational "in there" is also doing work: horror isn’t a pure category, it’s embedded, mixed, hiding in adjacent rooms of the same house.

Context matters because Campbell comes from a tradition where tone and implication are everything. He’s reminding us that horror isn’t just monsters; it’s a lens you can switch on, briefly, without pretending that’s the only light in the building.