Always loved the weird and monstrous, even as a toddler. Loved feeling scared. Started reading Stephen King at 12 and was hooked. Also enjoy Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, Jack Finney, Theodore Sturgeon, John Steinbeck, Poppy Z. Bright, Douglas Adams, and the short fiction of hundreds of authors.
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