Riggs’s attraction to haunting photographs eventually became the catalyst for his first novel, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” (2011), a surprise best seller, whose plot was inspired by the dozens of vintage snapshots featured in its pages, which add to its uncanny atmosphere. I thought, oh, wow, I’ve been living with a ghost.” “Years later, I took it out and looked on the back,” he recalled, “and it said that she had died at age 15 of leukemia. One picture - it reminded him of a girl he’d had a crush on at camp - had such an effect on him that he bought it and put it by his bed. Riggs said recently, “but I would find these boxes of old snapshots.” “It was pretty torturous for an 11- or 12-year-old boy,” Mr. Growing up in Florida, the writer Ransom Riggs was often taken by his grandmother to swap meets and secondhand shops.
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