I'm never sure what scale I should use to rate horror novels on. Did it scare me? Not really. Was it engrossing? Well, I finished it. Were the characters realistic? Well, no. (view spoiler)[The "twist" was only possible because everyone in the book, like in most bad horror movies, refused to talk to each other and share information. In the mother's case, this made sense, why tell your kid he's being stalked, but when she found out he was living under their house? Well, maybe mommy should share a bit more, and ask him more questions about how his day was. And why didn't anyone else in town seem to know about this? The mom took it to the police, she seemed to talk to the kid's teachers about it, but never to the narrator's best friends' parents? Not even after their kid "ran away"? Not even after her son wanted to date that kid's sister? Not even after that sister was somehow put into the hospital? She didn't suggest that maybe their elderly neighbor who was brutally murdered might have been the victim of the same guy? Do the police see that much senseless violence in their suburban community that they never tried to make any connections? 
 Now that I've started I realize I have so many more questions: Why didn't the kid see his kidnapper when he woke up in the woods? If his stalker decided that kidnapping Josh and dressing him up like the narrator was satisfying enough (I assume that's why he was dressed in the kid's old clothes and had his hair dyed) and stopped sending creepy postcards, why did he start stalking the kid again years later when he went on a date? If his interest in the narrator was rekindled, why did he kill himself and get buried alive with Josh in a coffin? 
 When I started reading this on my kindle, I had bought it so long ago that I didn't remember what it was about- and when I googled it and read "stalker" "reddit posts" "creepypasta" etc., I assumed it was some sort of Slenderman thing. I think I would have preferred if it was! You can get away with more dream logic if you end your book with an unkillable demonic being than if your murderer is just an anonymous weirdo. (hide spoiler)] 
 I get not thinking these things through when you're just writing loosely connected horror shorts for reddit, but I'm disappointed that before being converted into a novel, the internal logic didn't get tightened up. It was just good enough that I kept reading, but nowhere near good enough for me to recommend it to anyone else. Still, the author has promise, and I hope he keeps trying and growing- his next story might just be as great as this one is hyped up to be.