![]() ![]() She recalls that her first experience with creative writing occurred when she was incapacitated with a twisted ankle at age eight or nine. When she was seven, Klause and her family moved north to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Robinson before I ever saw any of their movies." Her father also let her speak to Willoughby, an imaginary little boy who lived down his throat. I knew all about Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Jimmy Cagney, and Edward G. ![]() "But my daddy used to sit me on his lap and tell me the plots to gangster and monster movies. "My mother read and sang to me," Klause explained. A vampire love story, Klause's first novel is a darkly seductive thriller with heart and message.īorn in Bristol, England, in 1953, Klause became fascinated with grisly things at an early age. ![]() Annette Curtis Klause broke new ground in young adult literature with The Silver Kiss, a book that is at once "sexy, scaring, and moving," according to Roger Sutton writing in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. ![]()
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