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An avid consumer of all things horror, Joyner enjoys reading books from the paranormal and occult subgenres and watching horror movies. Likenesses of the horror classics like Michael Meyers, Pennywise the clown, Jason Voorhees, and Chucky line the walls of her office along with more recent cinematic terrors such as Annabelle, Valak, and Kayako Saeki. Guarded by her cat, Phoenix, Joyner uses this creative sanctuary as a writing retreat and a home of operations for her other career as a freelance fiction editor.

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I remember being a teenager, fixated on horror, but only being able to read Seventeen magazine because there just weren't that many main-stream options. There wasn't an Amazon at the time for me to browse, and none of my friends quite shared my obsession. For the first decade of my adult life, I perused the Barnes & Noble mystery and horror sections - though the horror sections were more aptly nam

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