Stop me if you’ve heard this one: four people of varying or identical backgrounds have to survive a night in a haunted house. In what might be a nod to Stephen King, they’re all authors. Oh, and it’s a podcast. Oh, and they leave the house before the first half of the book is done. There’s your twist.

“Kill Creek” takes the usual genre material and shakes it up just enough to make it its own unique thing. Without giving away too much, you’ve got a cast of for authors that I’ll dumb down to a Dean Koontz type, a gory slasher, Stephen King, and R. L. Stine (except fat, the book mentioned that line to death). The four of them and a privileged white guy are in for what they will eventually realize is the most important night of their lives.

“Kill Creek” is a love letter to the horror and thriller genres that both complements and subverts tropes, and I’d highly recommend anyone pick it up and take a trip to Kansas.