Talk:The Night I Protected My Family From Nothing/@comment-31077845-20170212053324

I just like the fact that the ending wasn't the normal "And then everyone dies" ending. I keep my baseball bat in my room though. They're underrated as home defense devices.

I'm gonna have to split the comments here and say that I agree with MOH; there's definitely nothing at all novel about some being being able to mimic family member's voices. They aren't always shadow creatures, but I've already seen a couple stories on here that are only a few sentences long that deal with the concept, since it's as simple as:

Person is someplace; person hears voice of family member call them; they start going to voice; on their way they encounter/see said family member in a different location than the voice is coming from. Spookiness regarding who or what was actually calling them originally ensues. The end.

Those are the bones of it, regardless of the level of elaboration you choose to add. Of course a number of stories can be broken down in a similar way so I don't hold it against the author THAT much, but it's not like we're breaking new ground here.