A.R. Simmons asked Ed Ireland:

What is the most bizarre thing you have imagined that actually got into one of your stories?

Ed Ireland Another great question. OK, so when I was a kid, my entire family lived in my Grandmother's house. The house was very much in the middle of a city street but it was built in the early 1800s and was part of a much larger mansion. Anyway, I would always imagine I saw these shapeless blobs of darkness that would skitter around the rooms at night. It would occasionally take some shape, always frightening and always where only I would see it.
This "creature" made its way into the second book of my Huntress series as a "black, shapeless demi-god named Everdark". My Grandmother would tell me what I saw were angels coming to protect me. The Everdark says he's not evil too, but damnit, I know what I saw!

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