A little detail I loved in "Beach Reads": When Patricia first finds the Your Turn book, a fly circles it β the way flies circle something rotten or smelly. Odd, because the book looks brand new, pristine, untouched. Then the twist hits. It is rotten. What Patricia saw as a clean, modern copy is actually an ancient spell book in disguiseβ and it's been that way from the start. The dark magic was already working on her before she even knew what she was holding.
βOne of the writers had this idea of a self-help book that goes wrong, and it started a conversation about, βWhat are Patriciaβs fears?' One thing I always think about with Patricia is the thing that is scarier to her than the idea of dying is the idea of dying and no one caring about it. That brought in the one thing we always try to do when weβre using these horror tropes, which is tell a story about a character who is feeling very real, human emotions.β β creator Katie Dippold for The Wrap.
