Kill Creek
by Scott Thomas
Published by Inkshares
on October 31, 2017
Genre: Adult, Horror
Length: 416 pages
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Synopsis:
At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. But something is waiting, lurking in the shadows, anxious to meet its new guests...
When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween Night in one of the country's most infamous haunted houses, he reluctantly agrees. At least he won't be alone; joining him are three other masters of the macabre, writers who have helped shape modern horror. But what begins as a simple publicity stunt will become a fight for survival. The entity they have awakened will follow them, torment them, threatening to make them a part of the bloody legacy of Kill Creek.
My Thoughts:
Four famous horror authors are invited to a special Halloween-night interview with 'WrightWire' in a nearly-forgotten haunted house. After the interview and a night's stay in the house, everyone goes on their merry way, but then they all realize they are writing the same book and decide to return to the house to find out why.
This was a pretty decent haunted house novel with a decent horror/thriller ending. I loved getting to know the horror authors and couldn't help but attempt to link them to real life popular horror authors and the history behind the house is super interesting and had me hooked.
The downside?
The first 150 pages or so of this book is mostly character development so I won't recommend it if you like to jump right into the horror from the get-go.
I was invested in the haunted house aspects of the story so I pushed through. It really picked up after the interview, which kind of threw me for a loop at first, and the ending was not entirely what I expected but still kept me up late into the night!
Similar books?
This one reminded me a bit of Hell House by Richard Matheson!
Have you read Kill Creek?
Have any haunted house books you love?
I'd love to know!
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