Summary

In "Creature," the summer Carol was 14, she got a job babysitting a local woman, Mrs. Pike's grandchildren. She started the job shortly after she and her mother moved out of her father's house and her father returned to rehab. Mrs. Pike was one of Carol's mother's customers. The job required that Carol live at Mrs. Pike's mansion in Widows' Point. Widows' Point was a piece of land that jutted out into the Atlantic. Carol's father lived nearby.

When she arrived at the house, she was surprised by how much it reminded her of Jane Eyre, one of her "summer reading" books (3).

Inside the mansion, a woman named Margaret showed Carol to her room and told her the children would return from the beach shortly.

Carol was thrilled by her room, which was located inside "one of the turrets" (6). She felt like she was in...