CharacterĪll four of the horror authors are completely different people, with their tragic pasts and personality quirks, which Thomas eloquently draws out and develops throughout the novel. He attributes anthropomorphic characteristics to the house, which not only adds to the horror, but emphasizes that, in this case, the house is a character just as important as any of the people exploring it. Thomas develops the house not just through describing its history, but by providing rich detail as the story progresses. The setting is a character of its own, which you find in a lot of great literature. Readers who carefully select their books based on the language used will not be disappointed! Setting It brings the Gothic style into the twenty-first century. Kill Creek has a compelling writing style. I will address all four categories below: Language It fully encompasses the four appeal elements that I learned about in readers’ advisory in library school-plot, character, language, and setting. Sure, those of you who scare easily might hate me for it, but I really think this book has something for everyone. Kill Creek is not for the faint of heart! That said, I recommend it to everyone.
This sets the stage for the disturbing events that follow… The house on Kill Creek has a tragic, mysterious history that Thomas shares with the reader in the very prologue of the book. It did not go over my head that this book addresses all of these key components. In the very first chapter, Sam McGarver, who is also a professor at the university, gives a lecture on the elements of true Gothic horror. Kill Creek brings Gothic horror into the modern era. But when the sun goes down strange things start to happen in the house, and Sam starts to wonder-what if this house really is haunted? All four of them write completely different types of horror, yet they’re all brought to the house for a group interview as a publicity stunt to increase sales of their future books. When he gets there, he discovers that the reporter who invited him, infamous Wainwright of the website “WrightWire”, actually invited three other horror authors as well.
So when he’s mysteriously invited to spend Halloween at an allegedly haunted house, he figures he has nothing to lose. World-renowned horror author Sam McGarver has writer’s block.
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