Doctor Craven believed that the bleeding took place because aspirin prevented blood from thickening.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

A California doctor named Lawrence Craven first noted this effect about sixty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

written and directed by Wes Craven, the former university literature professor who revitalized the horror genre.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

I want to scare a new generation of people with this movie and I want Freddy Krueger to be what I feel Wes Craven intended him to be, which is a real bogeyman, because I want it to be really scary.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04