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Ania Ahlborn

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Born

in Ciechanow, Poland

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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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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: 3.74 · 181,323 ratings · 24,506 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Brother 3.91 avg rating — 67,555 ratings — published 2015 — 16 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
	Seed 3.80 avg rating — 36,351 ratings — published 2011 — 21 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 3.67 avg rating — 16,841 ratings — published 2013 — 14 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 3.55 avg rating — 12,893 ratings — published 2014 — 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 — 11,788 ratings — published 2017 — 19 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 3.62 avg rating — 8,371 ratings — published 2015 — 14 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 3.30 avg rating — 9,036 ratings — published 2012 — 12 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
	Dark Across the Bay 3.45 avg rating — 5,706 ratings — published 2021 — 8 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 3.59 avg rating — 4,021 ratings — published 2019	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 3.62 avg rating — 2,704 ratings — published 2017 — 8 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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Pearl

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The House Across the Lake

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

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What non-King book would you like to read in September?

Hidden Pictures Jason Rekulak

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My Sister, the Serial Killer Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Final Girls Riley Sager

23 votes, 11.7%

The 6:20 Man David Baldacci

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The Devil and the Dark Water Stuart Turton

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The Ice Princess Camilla Läckberg

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The Fisherman John Langan

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Stolen Tongues Felix Blackwell

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The Girl In The Woods Patricia MacDonald

8 votes, 4.1%

The Ravaged Norman Reedus

7 votes, 3.6%

The Graveyard Apartment Mariko Koike

6 votes, 3.1%

Daisy Darker Alice Feeney

6 votes, 3.1%

Dark Across The Bay Ania Ahlborn

5 votes, 2.6%

Just Like Home Sarah Gailey

5 votes, 2.6%

The Butcher Jennifer Hillier

5 votes, 2.6%

Fear Collector Gregg Olsen

4 votes, 2.0%

Harvest Nights Ahmed H. Alameen

4 votes, 2.0%

Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson

3 votes, 1.5%

Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor

2 votes, 1.0%

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

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Dirt Town Hayley Scrivenor

1 vote, 0.5%

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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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