About The Author

Name: Lakin Koniezcny

Age: 21

Location: Northeastern Michigan

Occupation: Accounting/Payroll for Tom Konieczny Builders, and Writing Horror Fiction (of course)

Pets: Dog-Josie, Cat-Tyson

Hobbies: Writing, Reading, Painting, Drawing, Sculpting, Wood Burning, Motorcycles, Archery, Fishing, Yoga, Movies, TV Series, Hunting, and Exploring

Fears: I’ve found that I’m afraid of the unknown. Like when I’m swimming in deep water, and I don’t know what’s beneath me. Or when it’s dark and I hear something unexplainable. That scares the piss out of me. I’m also afraid of ghosts, aliens, and ghoulish creatures. It’s strange, I think, that I’m not afraid of the real monsters, like murderers and rapists. Instead I fear “fictitious” creatures, and what goes bump in the night. As a child, I watched the movie E.T. for the first time when I was about four. I remember thinking how scary E.T. looked, especially when he was sick and pasty white. Since then, I’ve seen the movie a few times, but not more recent than when I was about twelve. I found the notion of strange creatures from elsewhere that were known to come and take people from their beds terrifying.

I’ve been writing since my junior year of high school. I remember the specific class that sparked my desire to write, it was (of course) Creative Writing. In that class, I had loads of fun, and nearly always got a high grade. I felt I was destined to write. Since then, I’ve been writing novels and short stories. To date, I’ve tried selling three different short stories, and haven’t gotten a good response on one of them yet. I’m hopeful for the day that I will be published though.

Why write horror? Some people may ask.

As long as I’ve been reading, I’ve been reading horror and the macabre. I remember checking out “Scary Stories To Read After Dark” when I was in elementary school. There were at least three editions, and I read and loved them all. Laying awake in bed after reading these stories, I believe, helped shape my overactive imagination. There were times I was frightened to even breathe. To me, there is something elemental about fear. It is a most ancient of emotions, and it lives in all of us. Fear is motivation, and sometimes a necessary evil.