I think this is too immature for kids, I'm not criticizing the coping mechanism here but I didn't find the plot captivating at all that leads there. There aren't many elements of horror here and very straight-forward to call it a "weird fiction". I mean all this build up just to make the kid speak the truth! I understand that mind is complicated and contradicts itself but that doesn't mean that all that matters is your actions, that narrows and drains down a child's consciousness. I thought that weird fiction is to genre what post-modernism is to literature but this story just narrows down everything so hopelessly, it's like spoon-feeding whatever the monster has to say. Even the much-anticipated nightmare turned out to be a bummer.