Firstperson: Nuzo Onoh

Nuzo Onoh, 52, horror author, England

Nuzo Onoh, 52, horror author, England.

Horror doesn't really exist as a literary genre in Africa, because there's no need for it. But I've always been in love with it, and my bookshelves at home are groaning with Stephen King.

I grew up in what was the Republic of Biafra in present-day Nigeria. The civil war between Nigeria and Biafra touched my family, and was a huge presence in my childhood.

**It was around this time that I fell ...