Chapter 1: The arrival of the friends and the start if thr

Midnight's horror is about a bunch of friends having a sleepover and Skyping each other. It’s a nasty, tasty supernatural horror about million of people online, in fact more or less entirely on one computer screen. But you can’t watch it on a titchy computer screen yourself without losing its essential flavour, and missing out on the eerie “blow-up” effect. You have to see those browsers, with all their irritating little features and insidious ads and prompts, all those designs that have become embedded in your subconscious mind, magnified to the size of Stonehenge. Part of the creepy effect of this book, Mary and her friends have been struggling to come to terms with the internet for a while now. Horror movies have been struggling to come to terms with the internet for a while now.