Top 5 Wednesday: Creepy Settings

Top 5 Wednesday: Creepy Settings

1.     Almost all of Stephen King’s novels take place in Maine, and making the state of Maine creepy in itself.  He usually looks at the small town and the people in small towns.   Something horrible usually happens to the people in the town.  He looks at the isolation of a small and to me that is what makes it creepy is the isolation.

2.     I would not want to live at Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.  It is too big and there’s a crazy woman in the attic, but if Rochester was there on a regular basis I would be okay.  The bigness and darkness of the house is creepy.

3.     The castle, Milder Castle in The Distant Hours is another creepy house setting.  In the present, the castle is moldering and falling apart, and the three Blythe sisters, who are old ladies now, are still living there.  The book is about why they have lived there their whole lives and why they’re trapped.  Gothic houses are just creepy, but they always contain an interesting backstory.

4.     Seale House in The Vanishing Game gives creepy vibes.  The reader doesn’t know what’s deal with the house, but the protagonist does experience some strange things, and the on top of that Jocelyn has bad memories of abuse at the foster house.

5.     In Cassie Clare’s City of Bones, the Bone city where the Silent Brother’s live is creepy.   The Silent Brother’s mouths and eyes are sewn shut and the city is literally filled with the bones of Shadowhunters.  It’s also in a graveyard.