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But I look back now and I go, 'Well, I'm the person I am because I read that.' Would I change it? I don't think I would. That was one that absolutely shook me, it gave me nightmares, it disturbed me. And it just rocked my world! At 9, I thought the world was safe and the idea that people could come in and take you away from circuses and turn you into speechless golden-eyed creatures that would gaze imploringly at your parents if they ever came past and there was no hope. I remember a short story by a man called Charles Birkin about a father who realizes that his missing daughter was turned into a circus freak by a mad professor who kidnapped children and turned them into horrible freaks using surgical means. And, you know, when you read everything, you wind up reading short stories or stories that just, you shouldn't probably have read yet and the kinds of things that gave me nightmares.

I was the kind of kid who read everything.

Neil author of stardust