It's sort of a convention of this genre to give the nanny in these stories some kind of difficult history that might even make her a little unreliable when she starts encountering these supernatural things. When I first started writing this book and thinking about it, I just couldn't believe it.
If you're in your house at night and there's a knock at the door at 11:00, I don't care who you are, you immediately are on edge." And she was telling me about things like the pain scale that got adopted in hospitals where their number-one goal was to treat your pain and to get that number down from, you know, 9 or 10 to 2, by any means necessary. And years ago, before all this stuff came to light about, like, the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, she was telling me these stories about how a boy would go to the dentist to get his wisdom teeth removed and four months later he'd be, like, hooked on heroin, because the oxycotin, oxycodone. Some of that was familiar to me, from experiences I had when I was younger.Īnd then in regards to her addiction and recovery, my sister-in-law works with people in recovery. And so I felt very comfortable with that. My dad was a construction worker, and my family's full of nurses.
Mallory comes from a sort of blue-collar neighborhood in South Philly, and that's kind of my background as well. I wanted to know what research you did in order to create her and write from her perspective. NR: Hidden Pictures' main character is Mallory Quinn, a young woman that's 18 months sober from a serious addiction struggle. Nicole Ransome: Hi, I'm Audible Editor Nicole, and I'm excited to introduce listeners to Jason Rekulak, author of The Impossible Fortress, here to talk about his new horror listen, Hidden Pictures. Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly.
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