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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 has taught creative writing classes for the last ten years, whilst writing screenplays, tackling a novel and experimenting with short stories.
A true Scorpio, her tastes definitely err towards the dark side – her favourite painting is Salvator...more


Picture When Julia asked me to write about zombies I had to stop and think. I rather enjoy the limelight and rarely turn down the opportunity of a guest appearance, but zombies? Those of you who are fans of the living dead may be surprised, may be horrified, to learn that zombies are my least favourite ghoul. But…

I recently watched the old film Zombie Flesh Eaters by Lucio Fulci and enjoyed it enormou... read more »
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Average rating: 4.55 · 29 ratings · 12 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Dreaming, Not Sleeping
4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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Dreaming, Not Sleeping - Excerpt (Horror)
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Description: Short story - Erotic horror
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Amazon Kindle: Julia Kavan's Dark Corner 1 9 Jul 22, 2011 07:08am  
Iyanla Vanzant
“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”
Iyanla Vanzant

Charlotte Brontë
“I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
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