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Julia Kavan

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Julia has spent most of her life living in Cambridgeshire, England - atmospheric and the perfect inspiration for ghost stories. She devoured horror stories as a teenager, including James Herbert and Stephen King in her list of favourite authors, moving on to Clive Barker and Peter Straub. As a child she would watch anything that even vaguely looked as if it may be scary... so perhaps it is only natural that this is the area her writing tends to wander into - even if she don't always intend it to!
She taught creative writing classes for over ten years, whilst writing screenplays, novellas and experimenting with short stories.
Her tastes definitely err towards the dark side – her favourite painting is Salvator Rosa’s L’Umana Fragilità and he
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Dreaming, Not Sleeping

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Catherine Cavendish - The Lady of White Rock Lake

Today, I welcome friend and horror author Catherine Cavendish to my blog! Her latest book - Saving Grace Devine - was published by Samhain on July 1st. Here she tells us about the haunting stories she found while carrying out her research for the novel. Over to Cat...
The Lady of White Rock Lake
Picture In my new novel, Saving Grace Devine, a young girl is drowned, but her spirit returns to haunt the la Read more of this blog post »
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“Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.”
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