Marcus Kliewer is a writer and stop-motion
animator. His debut novel We Used to Live
Here began life as a serialized short story on
Reddit, where it won the Scariest Story of
2021 award on the NoSleep forum (eighteen
million members). Film rights were snapped
up by Netfl ix, and it was acquired by Simon
& Schuster in the US for publication even
before it had been extended into a fulllength
novel. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
