Born in Bristol, England, Klause played in the ruins of homes destroyed during the Blitz, the bombing raids flown over England by the Nazis during World War II. At age seven, she and her family moved north to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where Klause embarked upon a lifelong love affair with books and reading during one of her first visits to the local library. The stories of such authors as C. S. Lewis, with his "Chronicles of Narnia" series, fascinated her, and she also began to do some writing of her own: self-illustrated stories about cats and kittens, poems, and even plays that she performed with her schoolmates.
From Pulp Fiction to Poetry
Klause's early exposure to fantastic literature--via the pulp novels and science fiction magazines collected by her father and scattered in piles around the house--gave her imagination a rather horrific bent. One of her first longer written works, which actually reached several chapters in length, was The Blood Ridden Pool of Solen Goom, a story that involved gallons of blood.
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