After he found various Snedekers' stories to be contradictory, Garton says the Warrens told him "Everybody who comes to us is crazy. In the early 1990s, he was hired by Ed and Lorraine Warren to write a book about Carmen Snedeker, her ill son, and their family's house (allegedly a former funeral home) that was infested with anal-rapist demons. Beginning with seeing 13 Ghosts, the genre was an outlet that took his then-lifelong fear "and made it fun." In 2009, he explained that horror was not his intention when beginning writing, rather "that's just what came out". He further credited child abuse and church-induced eschatological fears with inspiring his interest in horror fiction. Lovecraft, Bela Lugosi, and Edgar Allan Poe. Growing up, Garton's media influences included Bob Wilkins' Creature Features, Dark Shadows, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Boris Karloff, Stephen King, H. In the 1980s, Garton worked for Pinnacle Books in New York City. Garton was first published before age 22. Raised in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he had left by adulthood, calling it a "pseudo- Christian cult." Garton married his wife, Dawn, around 1989. Garton grew up in Anderson, California, where he only attended religious schools. He was adopted by Pat and Ray Garton, the latter being a World War II veteran. is an American author of horror fiction for adults and young adults.
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