Tanner Keegan Read
Tanner Keegan Read
(Fixed File) I Grew Up in a Haunted House: How Trauma Became My Fuel with Amanda Fasciano
(Fixed File) I Grew Up in a Haunted House: How Trauma Became My Fuel with Amanda Fasciano
(Fixed File) I Grew Up in a Haunted House: How Trauma Became My Fuel with Amanda Fasciano
Saturday 28th March 2026
Author Amanda Fasciano shares haunted house memories, trauma, and how emotionally intense storytelling became a tool for healing and self-awareness.
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Episode Overview
- Writing can act like therapy by letting emotions spill safely into characters and stories instead of staying trapped inside.
- Your story is unique; many ideas have been done, but no one else can tell them through your particular experiences and voice.
- Finishing and publishing creative work is terrifying, yet the fear often lasts only a few seconds before pride kicks in.
- Painful experiences can be reshaped into something meaningful for others, like turning broken glass into a mosaic.
- Self-awareness and a steady focus on small steps forward are crucial practices for anyone trying to regain their sense of sanity.
Write your own book, write poetry, write whatever you can into turning your pain into something that can help other people because if we can do that, maybe the world won't be so dark.
Curious about how others handle their ghosts, both literal and emotional? This conversation between host Keegan Read and author Amanda Fasciano blends haunted house chills with raw talk about trauma, creativity, and mental health. Amanda shares what it was like to grow up in a genuinely haunted house, casually mentioning footsteps on empty stairs and a ghost who once hid her mum’s frying pan for two weeks.
Those eerie childhood experiences fed straight into her love of horror, vampires and shifters, and later into her series *The Otherworld Saga*. She laughs that she’ll “emotionally devastate” herself and her friends to make a story work, but it’s clear that writing has become her pressure valve for pain. The chat leans into how art can act as both a mirror and a release.
Amanda talks about pouring her darkest moments into characters, including a traumatised, multiple-personality vampire she’s been shaping for 30 years, and only realising afterwards how much of her own hurt she’d put on the page. As she puts it, you can take a room of authors, give them the same premise, “and you will not come up with the same story once” – because no one else has your lived experience.
There’s also honest discussion about identity after divorce, disability, and no longer being “needed” in old roles, and how she’s thrown herself into becoming “author Amanda” as a way forward.
Writing, for her, is turning broken glass into a mosaic: “Write your own book, write poetry, write whatever you can into turning your pain into something that can help other people.” If you’ve ever wondered whether your worst moments could become creative fuel instead of dead weight, this conversation might be the nudge that gets you to pick up the pen and start telling your own story.