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Ania Ahlborn

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Born

in Ciechanow, Poland

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http://www.aniaahlborn.com

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Genre

Horror, Literature & Fiction, Thriller

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Brett Easton Ellis, Stephen King, Ira Levin, Robert Bloch ...more

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Born in Ciechanow Poland, Ania has always been drawn to the darker, mysterious, and sometimes morbid sides of life. Her earliest childhood memory is of crawling through a hole in the chain link fence that separated her family home from the large wooded cemetery next door. She’d spend hours among the headstones, breaking up bouquets of silk flowers so that everyone had their equal share.

Author of nine novels, Ania's books have been lauded by the likes of Publisher's Weekly, The New York Daily News, and The New York Times. Some titles have been optioned for film.

Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ania currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina.

For more from Ania, visit her site, or connect via social media on Facebook and Twitter.

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Average rating: 3.66 · 50,992 ratings · 7,623 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Seed 3.71 avg rating — 10,894 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Bird Eater 3.51 avg rating — 7,877 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shuddering 3.73 avg rating — 4,947 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Neighbors 3.25 avg rating — 5,657 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil Crept In 3.65 avg rating — 4,575 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	If You See Her 3.68 avg rating — 1,167 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Pretty Ones 3.59 avg rating — 1,013 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Ania Ahlborn (?)

“What if insanity is just a heightened sense of perception?”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

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“Every mother has the miraculous ability of momentary blindness.”
― Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls

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“You don't really dream about the things you can become if you know you can't become them.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Neighbors

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Hidden Pictures Jason Rekulak

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Final Girls Riley Sager

24 votes, 13.3%

My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite

20 votes, 11.1%

The 6:20 Man David Baldacci

18 votes, 10.0%

The Devil and the Dark Water Stuart Turton

13 votes, 7.2%

The Ice Princess Camilla Läckberg

10 votes, 5.6%

The Fisherman John Langan

9 votes, 5.0%

Stolen Tongues Felix Blackwell

8 votes, 4.4%

The Girl In The Woods Patricia MacDonald

8 votes, 4.4%

The Graveyard Apartment Mariko Koike

6 votes, 3.3%

Daisy Darker Alice Feeney

6 votes, 3.3%

The Ravaged Norman Reedus

6 votes, 3.3%

Just Like Home Sarah Gailey

5 votes, 2.8%

The Butcher Jennifer Hillier

5 votes, 2.8%

Dark Across The Bay Ania Ahlborn

4 votes, 2.2%

Fear Collector Gregg Olsen

3 votes, 1.7%

Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson

3 votes, 1.7%

Harvest Nights Ahmed H. Alameen

3 votes, 1.7%

Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor

2 votes, 1.1%

The Little Woods: Book One of the New Apocrypha A.G. Mock

1 vote, 0.6%

Dirt Town Hayley Scrivenor

1 vote, 0.6%

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Ania’s Quotes

“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: creativity, substance-abuse, writing

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