# Stories about having to take care of spooky little half-siblings? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** books-writing-myths\ **Created:** [October 31, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-about-having-to-take-care-of-spooky-little-half-siblings/924442 "2020-10-31T21:50:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stories-about-having-to-take-care-of-spooky-little-half-siblings/924442/1 "2020-10-31T21:50:39Z")
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