


Groups exist, from people obsessed with JonBenét Ramsey and other bizarre killings. RD: It strikes me that the society-called 'The Kill Club'-bears resemblence to a lot of online societies with obsessions about murder, mysteries and conspiracies. "The idea I’m playing with throughout the entire story is: did this guy really do it?" Not only did she escape but she also accused her eldest brother, Ben, of being a devil-worshipping crazy guy who killed the family.įor years since then, all she’s been doing is sleeping and eating and living off the dregs of a trust fund that had been set up for her after the murders.Īn underground society investigating unsolved murders or mysteries become very interested in this case-the murder of the Day family-and she finds herself joining forces with them. Her entire family was murdered one night at their Kansas farmhouse. When she was seven-years-old, she was the survivor of a massacre. Gillian Flynn: Dark Places is about Libby Day who is roughly 31-years-old and hasn’t done anything in her life, and yet she is notorious. Reader's Digest: Can you begin by telling us a little bit about Dark Places which is out now on DVD? Author of Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn, spoke to us about her novel Dark Places, and how growing up in Kansas with a fondness for Iron Maiden and Slayer! influenced this dark-crime-thriller.
