Born in Ciechanow Poland, Ania has always been drawn to the darker, mysterious, and sometimes morbid sides of life....
Ania Ahlborn is the bestselling author of the horror works Brother, The Devil Crept In, Within These Walls, The Bird Eater, The Shuddering, The Neighbors, Seed.
Interview: Ania Ahlborn, author of THE DEVIL CREPT IN
Q&A with Ania Ahlborn
Crime by the Book: If you could describe THE DEVIL CREPT IN in 3 adjectives, what would they be?
Ania Ahlborn: Wow, a tough question right out of the gate!
Three adjectives...hmm. Sinister, harrowing, and tragic. Always, always tragic.
CBTB: What inspired you to write this story? (Fingers crossed your answer isn’t “personal experience”...)
AA: Well, when I was a kid and went missing myself...
(ba-dum-pum) No, but seriously. I've always found the concept of a child going missing both terrifying and fascinating. On one side, you have the grief the family goes through, the fear of "where's my baby?" On the other, where's the kid, and what's he going through?
Who took him?
From the bestselling horror author of Within These Walls and The Bird Eater comes a compelling novel that follows a teenager determined to break from his.And if he escapes, will he ever be the same again? I knew I wanted to make that the central part of my story while also pulling in the terror of the family that's in the midst of a very real nightmare. DEVIL is