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Ally is the author of It Came from the Trees. She grew up on a steady diet of Halloween parties, horror films, Unsolved Mysteries, and Goosebumps books. She has always loved scary stories and got her MFA from Simmons University and, eventually, a job working in children’s publishing. In the past, she has written about all kinds of spooky subjects for the Tor Nightfire blog. She hails from Pittsburgh—ground zero for the zombie apocalypse. Ally lives with her husband and her two black cats, Nox and Fury. She’s afraid of the woods, the dark, and heights.
Author and Cryptid Enthusiast
Meet Ally Russell
So, Why Does Ally Write Horror?
Ally has always had a deep interest in all things strange. As a kid, she spent most Friday and Saturday nights huddled around the TV with her parents and siblings as they watched scary movies. Werewolf movies were–and still are–her favorite, and to this day, she still gets a little nervous whenever the moon is full.
When Ally learned how to read on her own, she devoured books like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Tales for the Midnight Hour, and The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural. When she wasn’t reading, Ally was either watching TV shows about cryptids and other paranormal subjects or trying to write her own scary stories. (Her first “book” was an unauthorized sequel to a Goosebumps book, which she wrote by hand. Shh…don’t tell R.L. Stine!) She still has a binder full of all the scary stories she wrote when she was a kid.
Like that sponge from the Goosebumps book It Came from Beneath the Sink!, Ally continued to soak up frightening stories from the world around her, and eventually she was inspired to try to write her own scary stories. Ally enjoys being scared, and since the age of 10, she has been worried about spontaneous combustion and the Beast of Bray Road.
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Fun Facts about me
She loves horror movies. Found footage and creature features are two of her favorite sub genres.
She’s the proud owner of a giant 12-ft skeleton.
The case of D.B. Cooper and UFOs are two of her favorite unsolved mysteries.
She loves cemeteries and would spend most of her time in them if she could.
She has two black cats named Nox and Furiosa Grimm (Fury).
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She is intrigued by stories about witches and/or werewolves.
Mysteries are her second favorite genre after horror.
She loves pumpkins and once carved a 100-pound jack-o-lantern…and then had to get physical therapy on her arm to heal it.
Her glasses glow in the dark.
She is fascinated by home haunters (people who turn their homes into haunted attractions during the month of October).
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