The youngest of five siblings, the first seeds of Mary Rajotte's writing career were sown in grade school, where she penned her first piece, If I Were An Apple.

However, those early days of innocence were not to last, as Mary took a turn down a darker road, where her Wednesday Addams pigtails were perhaps a harbinger of the spookiness that was to come.

Residing in Toronto, Canada, Mary's penchant for atmospheric ambient and industrial music, creepy small towns and the exploration of myth, dream and nightmare is evidenced in her horror & dark fiction tales, each infused with a twisted, Twilight Zone atmosphere.

Creepy Crawleys, Mary's flash fiction piece, is set to be published in Shroud Publishing's anthology, Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales in 2008.

Mary is inspired by the drive & creativity of her grandmother, children's writer Bernadette Rajotte, composer of A Child's Christmas Prayer, and Young Hearts, which are a part of the National Library of Canada, and author of countless short stories, as well as Who Am I?: A Mother Goose Quiz Book (1978), which is part of the Toronto Library's Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books.

Invoking equal parts fear and intrigue, Mary's eerie tales will inspire in readers the urge to double-check the deepest, darkest closets, peer anxiously under the creakiest of beds, and to always, always sleep with the lights on.