Sherry Hall-Mauro

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Sherry Hall Mauro (September 28, 1969), is an American novelist who writes Horror fiction. She was born in Castro Valley, California.

[edit] Early years

Mauro was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, which forms the background against which most of her stories take place, with her parents and younger brother. She actually comes from a very artistic family of writers, poets, actors, and illustrators.

[edit] Writing career

Mauros’ novels combine a myriad of genres including horror, family saga, gothic and romance and they often include a gloomy mansion in the story. Her most well-known novel is the infamous and controversial, EVEN ANGELS FALL (2002), a tale of a young woman who after discovering a diary is haunted by the mysterious suicide of its author in a malevolent mansion filled with locked rooms and hidden secrets, following in the grand tradition of the female Gothic novel.

She has won first place in several short-story writing contests and has had an article published on the life and works of the late author, V.C. Andrews in the March 2003 edition of the Reviewers International Organization Newsletter. She completed her first book, EVEN ANGELS FALL, in 2002 and published it in 2003 under the name Sherry A. Mauro. This book would be the first in Mauro's popular Devour Family series, which includes 2004’s THE FACE OF HEAVEN, which was published under the name, Sherry Hall-Mauro. The last book in the this saga is TANGLED SOULS 2008.

[edit] Controversy

The book's success was not without controversy. The discussion of rape scene that develops between the two main characters in the novel has led to its being banned in certain areas at different times.

The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known California mansion that was the inspiration for Mauro's first novels. Mauro wrote a series loosely based on the mansion and Sarah Winchester. The three-part series is inspired by the Winchester Mystery House and has references throughout the books about the mansion. The books are about the Devour family and how each generation of women is compelled to build and rebuild on a old Victorian mansion to appease the spirits haunting it.