Lani Brown's Blog - Posts Tagged "doll"

In 1972 I had turned seven years old. My daddy took me to a department store to get a walking doll. It was advertised as a doll that could walk beside you when you held her hand. It couldn’t just up and walk on its own. Are you kidding me! That would be too creepy right?

I won’t go into detail regarding the doll. I will save the true accounts for Tressa Rose a book that will be coming out in 2017. But nevertheless, this much I will say… the doll was alive. It moved on its own and in the end I got the upper hand… or did I?

Two years later, in 1974, at nine years old, I started watching horror movies, sometimes all night. One movie in particular being “The Exorcist.” I was terrified by that movie to the point where I couldn’t sleep. I had nightmares of it for years, but after I seen the movie, you would think I would never watch horror again… wrong! I didn’t stop there. I watched everything I could from campy horror to classic horror, to screaming horror.

Around thirteen, I developed a love for writing stuff like that. One of my first short stories was on a Vampire, which I no longer have any of the stories… let’s blame it on life. This time it wan’t the muse’s fault.

I have always been a fanatic of horror, supernatural, and paranormal things. And through life I got involved in magic, had an occult shop, and I dabbled in things like tarots, spirit boards, and channeling, meditation… all which eventually brought in real spiritual activity into my life.

Now, it is not unusual to see shadows run across the hall, or hear a whisper behind me. So is it any wonder, I write in the genre that I do. I was conditioned with experience to write in horror, supernatural, and paranormal… and since it goes with the genre, let’s just throw thriller in there.

So, that’s the outline of how I got here. The rest that lies between the sentences, I will leave for great story ideas.