I’d never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren’t to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan… but I never saw myself – a square spazzy girl from the suburbs – writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought…