“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.”

American writer and filmmaker

Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker, best known for Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. He is especially identified with that book, which brought him wide recognition. His work as a writer and filmmaker places him across both page and screen, though the available facts point chiefly to his fiction. The site includes 105 quotes attributed to him.