Donna Taylor’s first love is horror. She watched her first horror movie when she was far too young to watch it, and started reading horror stories to her friends not long after that. From there it graduated to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, complete with Stephen Gammell’s original nightmare fuel illustrations, to RL Stine’s Goosebumps. Point Horror, Fear Street, and the world of Christopher Pike was only a natural progression from there.

For a long time, Donna was convinced she wasn’t good enough to write horror, until some writing prompts gave her the nerve to try. It’s been a spooky rollercoaster ride ever since. While she longs to capture the nostalgic, creepy feel of the horror of her youth, she does like to dabble in darker, scarier things. Horror is a broad genre, and Donna hopes to be able to explore its multitude of corners.

When she’s not writing, Donna is adding various trinkets and doo-dads to the gothic writing nook of her dreams, reading all the spooky stories, papercrafing messy, spooky things, and taking moody pictures throughout New England and the various places she travels. She shares space with her four needy cats and an incredibly patient husband who encourages her to write the books of her demented dreams.