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I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

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Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.

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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty.

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The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.

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Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading.

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I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

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I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

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A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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