My mom passed down her love of horror to me — and a big lesson about courage
It took me years to fully realize why my mother loved her spooky books so much. Those horror stories gave my mother the courage to leave her abuser.
I can't go one week without watching a horror film.
I'm really into horror, whether it's books or films. At age 12 my girlfriends were living by Judy Blume, but I was reading Stephen King thrillers for the second time.
The first time I got detention in high school was for reading Clive Barker's instead of the assigned book I thought I was slick too, sliding my newest horror book into my looseleaf notebook. I was so engrossed that I gasped in the middle of class, much to the dismay of my classmates and
