“Spooky to the core! Can’t believe you left me dangling at the end like that, dear author! How could you?”

“Clues are tucked between the lines, and while the final twist is unexpected, it lands with real emotional weight.”

“The True Path of Horror”

“Intense, Raw and powerful.”

These are some of the reviews of my various books and films from Goodreads, Amazon, magazines etc.  Because when you are a writer or an actress, what matters is what people take away from your work.  I write about fear, anguish, terror, and being deeply unsettled and tortured by your own mind.  My favourite quote in the world comes from the film Along Came a Spider: a detective asks a sadistic kidnapper why he does it, and his reply is: “Because the mind, the mind is a terrible thing.”  And it is.  The power of our minds to destroy us, elude us, confuse us, and devastate us is amazing.  That’s at the heart of my fiction and screenwriting, and why I love writing about, talking about, and studying horror.

Whether interviewing indie horror filmmakers with my brother, Chris, for The London Horror Movie Club, going to festivals with my latest horror short, Darner, or writing my upcoming book Natural Thorn Killers: A Creeping Guide to Plant Horror (keep an eye on Telos’ website), I’m thinking about horror from every angle and all day because it’s really an amazing thing.  I fell in love with the genre when I was young, watching Alfred Hitchcock films with my father, and when my parents were murdered when I was eighteen, believe it or not, Alien helped me feel like I could face the horror life had suddenly thrust onto me.  Horror has helped me connect with people, manage my own fears in an out-of-control and dangerous world, and even led to meeting the love of my life, horror director Tony Mardon.  Horror isn’t my whole life, but it’s a huge part of it because it has given me so much. I give back by exploring horror and introducing new ways into it through my non-ficiton work and podcast, while sharing my own anxieties, pains, and struggles in fiction writing and film.

Everything I write is personal to me, so if you really want to know about me, I’d say start there. From short stories and short films to novellas and film history books, I’m in there. Sharing the horror with love from Lauren.

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