Marie Kiraly

http://www.elainebergstrom.com

I've always had a love for exotic and historic locales, creepy houses, twisted characters and doomed romance—all of which grew out of youthful habits of excessive reading of gothic novels and short stories by Lovecraft and Poe, and a near-compulsive attendance at Saturday matinee double creature features.

I began composing fiction while in grade school. It was a hybrid mystery/suspense piece, a Bobsey Twins meet Norman Bates type of story. That was put on hold until, the mid-1980s. I was working as a copywriter. I had an office, a typewriter, and often a lot of time on my...