Since she has been combining them for too long, it is now difficult for her to distinguish one from the other. As such, it seemed very natural to combine the two elements in writing her novels. When it comes to horror writing, she is driven by fear and when it comes to her supernatural novels the awe of the unknown and dark curiosity is what motivates her. She has also written in the horror and supernatural genres, both of which she believes have the power to sweep her away. In a way she does feel as if it is all she has ever known and even she does dabble in other genres, fantasy always will be and has been a creative touchstone that she keeps coming back to. As such, it was natural that she would gravitate towards fantasy when she decided to pursue a career in fiction writing. She followed up her debut with the novel “The Dawn if the Coven,” which was the second of the “Bethel” series of novels.Īlexis has always loved reading science fiction as she is naturally drawn to the effectiveness of speculative fiction in taking one from one realm into another. Even though going into the forest was strictly forbidden, she still remembers standing outside her backyard staring into the brush beyond the tree line and wondering what monsters hid in it. Alexis Henderson lived in a house that stood on the edge of the woods. As for the Darkwood, she has said that the forest has always been a place of fascination.
“The Year of the Witching” her debut novel was very much inspired by the gothic and eerie themes she was exposed to during this time. Themes from several of her favorite tales such as “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt and particularly the “Hamilton Turner Inn” legend inspired many of the themes in her later works. Growing up, her standard fare was Southern Gothic folktales and ghost stories and this would influence her later career as an author.
She grew up in Savannah, Georgia, one of the most haunted cities in the South that instilled in her a lifelong obsession with ghost stories and gothic themes. Alexis Henderson is a speculative fiction author with a love for cosmic horror, witchcraft and dark fantasy.
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