In some ways this is the oldest cliché in the horror book spending a night in a haunted house. The book ensures the house’s reputation as one of the scariest places in America is truly cemented.įlip forward some years into the main part of the story, a popular internet supernatural TV host, known only as Wainwright, invites four very well-known horror writers to spend a night in the house.

Some years into their residency Rachel invites Dr Adubel, a well-known paranormal expert to spend time in the house, he writes a book about his experiences and “Phantoms of the Prairie” becomes a bestseller. The prologue reveals the house has a dark past, and when two spinster sisters Rachel and Rebecca Finch purchased it in 1975 it had already developed a dark reputation stretching back to the days of slavery. What of the “Kill Creek” plot then? Like I said nothing new, except for a haunted house story cleverly manipulated into a time-spanning tale that pulls four suckered horror authors into a dark sinister web. They have a very good track record after recently releasing the excellent “A God in the Shed” a few months back. If “Kill Creek” is a good example the quality of novel that comes out of Inkshares then I will be paying a very close interest to their future releases. Their community of readers can pre-order a book project on, and if the project hits its funding limit, Inkshares brings the book to life by providing editorial services, design, production, national distribution, and marketing. The publisher Inkshares operates with a crowdfunding model instead of agents and acquisition editors in deciding what to publish.

Few know horror as well as this dude and he was right on the money with this book and he reviews regularly for various leading horror sites. ' If you don’t know who Shane is check out his website as he is one of the very best horror and dark fiction reviewers in the business. This debut establishes Scott Thomas as a force to be reckoned with on the horror scene.

I took the plunge on “Kill Creek” after Shane Keene recommended it: 'A slow-burn, skin-crawling haunted house novel that had me on the edge of my seat until the last page. However, it messes around the horror clichés so cleverly the result is an intoxicating read which I sped through in a few nights loving every minute. At first glance there is nothing at all original about this highly entertaining debut novel which borrows many ideas from other books. Once-in-a-while we stumble upon a novel which defies all expectations and hits the nail slap bang in the centre of the head, “Kill Creek” by Scott Thomas did exactly that.

Kill creek by scott thomas