History Literature / TheClaverhouseEmails

One day, an anonymous user of Reddit met a mysterious person on the internet that simply referred to himself as "Claverhouse". He had seen Claverhouse on numerous online message boards back when they were a student. While other posters disliked him, the user and Claverhouse struck up a friendship, and the two exchanged email addresses.

* KillEmAll: Every single mentioned character in [[spoiler: "A Caress"]] is dead by the end.

* DefiniteArticleTitle: "The White Room", "The Summer House", "The Treehouse", "The Sleep Clinic", and "The Accident".

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The children's abusive father]] in "Snow".

* TheTheTitle: "The White Room", "The Summer House", "The Treehouse", "The Sleep Clinic", and "The Accident".

* DomesticAbuser: The father in "Snow" takes the cake, as he [[spoiler: ''ties his kids to poles and whips them'']].

* MagnumOpus: "The White Room" received the most upvotes out of all the stories on {{Website/Reddit}}, but most readers agree that "Snow", "The Treehouse" and "The Sleep Clinic" are the best of the whole collection.

One day, an anonymous user of Reddit met a mysterious person on the internet that simply referred to himself as "Claverhouse". The user had seen Claverhouse on numerous online message boards back when they were a student. While other posters disliked him, the user and Claverhouse struck up a friendship, and the two exchanged email addresses.

Also unknown was just how true the stories were. Though they were presented to the user as truth, they found some of them hard to believe, even completely made up in some parts. But Claverhouse was adamant that at their core they all illustrate a deeper, more universal truth: that the world is not the way people think it is.

* NoNameGiven: There are only six characters that are named in the entire collection.
** Julia in "Hives".
** Felix and Edgar and Lilith Cayce in "A Caress".
** Danny and Jules in "The Treehouse".

* MagnumOpus: "The White Room" received the most upvotes out of all the stories on {{Reddit}}, but most readers agree that "Snow", "The Treehouse" and "The Sleep Clinic" are the best of the whole collection.

** The mysterious stranger's pistol in "Still Waters".

** Played straight again in "Echoes", where the serial killer describes his murdered victims.

** Played straight again in "Echoes", where the serial killer describes his murdered victims.
* ChekhovsGun: The snowmen in the front yard of the abandoned house in "Snow".

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: The children living in the abandoned house]] in "Snow" [[spoiler: are tied to poles and left outside in subzero weather to die of exposure.

* KillTheCuite: This happens to [[spoiler: the children living in the abandoned house]] in "Snow".