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Ania Ahlborn

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Born

in Ciechanow, Poland

Website

http://www.aniaahlborn.com

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Genre

Horror, Literature & Fiction, Thriller

Influences

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

Member Since

March 2011

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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: 3.59 · 33,031 ratings · 4,813 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Seed 3.65 avg rating — 8,362 ratings — published 2011 — 17 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 Bird Eater 3.48 avg rating — 6,718 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
	Brother 3.96 avg rating — 3,311 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Within These Walls 3.63 avg rating — 2,771 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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 3.62 avg rating — 2,739 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
	The Neighbors 3.21 avg rating — 4,534 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 Shuddering 3.70 avg rating — 2,842 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Pretty Ones 3.61 avg rating — 688 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
	I Call Upon Thee 3.89 avg rating — 482 ratings — published 2017 — 2 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
	If You See Her 3.78 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2019 — 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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Ania answered Goodreads's question: How do you get inspired to write? For me, the ideas sort of just appear. Sometimes, they've been lurking at the back of my mind only to come to the forefront with a "hey, it's time." I don't feel like I really choose my ideas so much as my ideas choose me.
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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.”
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April 2013: Which book would you like King to read?

Phantoms by Dean Koontz

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The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

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The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

14 votes, 8.5%

The Collection by Bentley Little

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Drood by Dan Simmons

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14 by Peter Clines

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Seed by Ania Ahlborn

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The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

8 votes, 4.9%

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

6 votes, 3.7%

Blood Memory by Greg Iles

6 votes, 3.7%

The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike

5 votes, 3.0%

13 Bullets by David Wellington

4 votes, 2.4%

Covenant by John Everson

3 votes, 1.8%

Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson

2 votes, 1.2%

Mr. Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett

2 votes, 1.2%

Naebody's Hero by Mark Wilson

1 vote, 0.6%

Accelerating Circumstances by Destiny Booze

0 votes, 0.0%

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“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

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