Today I watched Lights Out, which features a woman having to come to her young half-brother’s rescue, and earlier this week I saw the first episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor, which is of course about a governess and two really strange kids…
So now I’d like to see or read something supernatural or scifi horror that goes a bit like this: years ago the protagonist’s dad abandoned them and started a new family later. There was angst of course, but she or he grew up to be a reasonably well-adjusted adult.
Now Dad and his new wife are dead. They had kids and there are no blood relatives other than the main character who is now in their mid-twenties to mid-thirties, so s/he called upon to assume care of their half sibs, whom they haven’t had any or much of a relationship with. And the kids, they’re…a little off.
At first the main character thinks that it’s just how they’ve been raised, but it’s not that…turns out his/her father and stepmother were experimenting on their children. Maybe in a scientific way, maybe by deliberately exposing them to something supernatural (something 13 Ghosts-ish?). Either way, the kids are scarred and the resultant mess is the main character’s lot to deal with.
Got anything like that? Or should I begin planning a NanoWriMo story real fast? ha