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Gender
Female
Location
The Twilight Zone
Writing Style
usually fairly dark, but also soulful
Interests
animals and animal welfare, reading, writing, learning, history, the Black Death, touring old cemeteries, touring museums, and attending local plays/artistic performances and orchestral performances
Favorite Genres
horror, gothic, psychological thrillers, black comedies, and all things generally dark, creepy, and twisted
Favorite Books
The Great Mortality, Gargoyle, American Psycho, Interview with a Vampire, Dracula, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, The Historian, The Stranger, The Thirteenth Tale, Cemetery Stories, Spoon River Anthology, Rhinoceros, The Last Duel
Favorite Authors
Edgar Poe, Matthew Pearl, Charles Dickens, Jean-Paul Sartre, Moliere, Chuck Palahniuk, Karl Pilkington, Shalom Auslander, Oscar Wilde, Michael Cox, Erik Larson, Franz Kafka, Thomas Ligotti
Favorite Quote
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ~Albert Schweitzer
Favorite Music
They Might Be Giants, The Dresden Dolls, The Cure, The Smiths/Morrissey, Bobby Darin (& music from the '20s, '30s and '40s generally), Beethoven and Brahms (and classical generally), '80s, future pop, synth pop, rap, punk, ska, goth, etc.
Favorite Movies
Nightmare Before Christmas, Amadeus, Rozencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Death to Smoochy, Amelie, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, all horror, Muppets, Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, '80s comedies, etc.
Favorite Shows
Six Feet Under, The Twilight Zone, Seinfeld, Breaking Bad, Happyish, Penny Dreadful, Kids in the Hall, Forever Knight, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, science and history shows generally
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