After being brutally mauled by a dog as a toddler, Jackson Arthur grew up with a stutter, which caused him to be socially awkward. Instead of interacting with people, he chose to hide his nose in books, causing him to fall in love with fiction. At an early age, he began reading Goosebumps and Fear Street, before graduating to more adult novels, like The Stand and The Green Mile. His love of strange stories blossomed into the desire to creep people out with his own brand of weird tales.