Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

