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Ania Ahlborn

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Born

in Ciechanow, Poland

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Horror, Literature & Fiction, Thriller

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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 · 187,299 ratings · 25,365 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Brother 3.91 avg rating — 69,777 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Seed 3.80 avg rating — 37,738 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 — 17,160 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 — 13,050 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 — 11,978 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 — 8,562 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 — 9,180 ratings — published 2012	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 3.44 avg rating — 5,849 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 3.60 avg rating — 4,141 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	I Call Upon Thee 3.61 avg rating — 2,856 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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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, 8.6%

The Collection by Bentley Little

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Drood by Dan Simmons

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14 by Peter Clines

8 votes, 4.9%

Seed by Ania Ahlborn

8 votes, 4.9%

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

8 votes, 4.9%

Blood Memory by Greg Iles

6 votes, 3.7%

Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

6 votes, 3.7%

The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike

5 votes, 3.1%

13 Bullets by David Wellington

4 votes, 2.5%

Covenant by John Everson

3 votes, 1.9%

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

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Accelerating Circumstances by Destiny Booze

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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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message 8: by C.J.

Apr 05, 2014 12:48PM

Bird Eater sounds interesting!

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message 7: by Dave

Nov 21, 2013 12:41PM

Thank you for being my friend!

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message 6: by Bill

Aug 01, 2012 08:26AM

Thank you for accepting my friend request. I see a few authors in your book list that I haven’t read before and I am looking forward to checking them out.

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message 5: by Christine

Jul 24, 2012 09:25AM