1408: 1408

by Michelle Buckley

Every horror and suspense novelist, in addition to writing novels that have always been popular and bury dying people by mistake, will also write at least one novel about a haunted inn, which is what I am going to write below. But strangely, I didn't plan to finish it. I only wrote three or four pages and wanted to use these pages as an appendix to my book "On Writing" to demonstrate to readers how a novel evolved from a first draft to a second draft. I just want to provide some examples of the principles that are exaggerated in the book. But something delightful the novel made me crave it, and I wrote it all in one go. I believe that for different people, the things that scare them vary greatly (for example, I have never understood why Peruvian tree snakes make some people shiver), but when I wrote this novel, my hair stood on end. This novel was originally part of the recorded version of 'Blood and Smoke', and the sound in the recorded version was even more terrifying. I was scared half to death. But the rooms in the hotel are already scary places, aren't they? I mean, how many people were there in that bed before you? How many of them have contracted diseases? How many people are mentally disordered? How many people may want to hang themselves in the closet next to the TV after reading the last few lines of the Bible in the drawer of the bedside table next to them? Oh, don't worry about that much, let's go check in, okay? Take the key... take some time, you may find out what those four originally innocent numbers add up to.

46 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 29, 2023