Scaring Up a New Generation of Readers With Ally Russell

Scaring Up a New Generation of Readers With Ally Russell

PHOTO COURTESY OF ALLY RUSSELL It’s August, but author Ally Russell is in an autumnal mood. Writing spooky stories and sipping cocoa at her desk while a black cat purrs on the window sill helps create the illusion that it’s mid-October and not a sweltering summer day. The 39-year-old currently resides in Bellefonte, Pa. — home of Big Spring Spirits, a distillery with a local site on the South Shore  — but she grew up reading “Goosebumps” and wat…