A review by literaryland_livin
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas

4.0

On a dark forgotten road lays Finch House, a notoriously rumored haunted home hidden in the Kansas countryside. For years the home had sat undisturbed, left to rot and decay as the years progress. Until the day four horror authors step foot into its halls. The stay sounded simple enough, spend Halloween night amongst peers of the horror writing community in order for a bit of publicity. However something has been waiting, lurking in the shadows of the infamous haunted house and now that it has guests for the first time in decades it may just want to repay the favor by following them home. 

Kill Creek is by far one of the most perfect Halloween reads out there! I mean who can pass up a tale of a spooky haunted house with a tragic horror filled history, not me! Divided into three parts we follow along as we meet four horror authors, all of which who have their own unique style to the genre. I found this particular detail to be really interesting as I enjoyed seeing how each author’s own background and personalities shaped the way they thought and ultimately how they choose to write their own books. I thoroughly love a spooky book that takes a mix match of characters and throws them all together seeing how they will interact and ultimately survive. While this is a horror staple in my opinion and not a new idea I still really loved that aspect of this book. Now to the spooky bits and boy was there quite a few! Once you hit about 30% and enter into the haunted Finch House where the plot really takes off with no shortage of goosebumps and chill inducing scenes. I really felt as if I was there with the characters while reading especially when I read this at night. The last quarter was truly terrifying, especially once we are given the full extent of the houses history. I can see where some readers can find the scares as cliche but honestly I loved every second of them cliche or not, to me these structural aspects of horror books or movies are crucial to staying to true the genre and one of the reasons I enjoy it so much. Ultimately I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to fans of haunted house stories. The scares, characters, and twists absolutely won’t disappoint and will have you wanting to sleep with the lights on after finishing this.