![]() But Scott Thomas's debut novel Kill Creek still manages to retell this tale with enough verve and and new twists to make it entertaining. ![]() Shirley Jackson wasn't even the first to do this, though The Haunting of Hill House is probably the most famous in the genre, and still one of the best. ![]() It's easy to see the literary parentage of this book: a group of investigators spend a couple of nights in a haunted house, and bloody shenanigans ensue. The entity they have awakened will follow them, torment them, threatening to make them a part of the bloody legacy of Kill Creek. ![]() But what begins as a simple publicity stunt will become a fight for survival. At least he won't be alone joining him are three other masters of the macabre, writers who have helped shape modern horror. 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. But something is waiting, lurking in the shadows, anxious to meet its new guests. Soon the door will be opened for the first time in decades. For years it has remained empty, overgrown, abandoned. At the end of a dark prairie road, nearly forgotten in the Kansas countryside, is the Finch House. ![]()
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