I first started reading because, as a very young child, I would watch my sister, who is five years older than me, reading Three Investigator books. They always had such eerie looking covers, that I was facinated and wanted to know what the story was about. The first novel I ever read was The Three Investigators and The Mystery of The Laughing Shadow. It's cover alone sold me on it. I ended up checking out every book in the series in my elementary schools library. In fact the librarian complained to my parents that she thought I should expand my horizons and read something else. This was not a school assignment, mind you. I was reading FOR FUN! My mom told her that she was just glade that I loved to read and that was the end of it.
As far as horror, I've loved it from the time I was born I think, and The Three Investigator books always had kind of a horror slant to them, so I guess that counts as well.
indeed! 
