Aging Poorly vs Being Harmful: A Final Look at “House of Night” and the Works of P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
I don’t think anyone is a stranger to the concept of media aging poorly. You rewatch your favourite movie from childhood and realize it’s deeply sexist. The book series you loved as a teen exotifies people of colour and is weirdly derogatory toward disabilities. A classic TV show is a bit too preoccupied with laughing at the idea of homosexuality.
Societies and their values change. The stories we tell and media we create act as a sort of time capsule for those ideals, and it can be jarring to look back on them and realize just how much has changed. But that’s not to say that those pieces of media are irredeemable or that you should never enjoy them again.
That being said, there is still a difference between something that ages poorly and something that was harmful from the start. Or, at least, there should be a limit to how much we handwave as a relic of the times. This, I think, is especially important when considering what media should be revived or adapted. With plans in motion for a television adaptation, House of Night is a perfect example of this.
Following the Trend
On July 3rd, 2019, a reader posted the following on Twitter:
Throughout July 4th and 5th, PC Cast responded.
In these tweets, PC Cast acknowledges that the language used is outdated, but ultimately defends it because it’s “the vernacular teens were using” and deflects all responsibility for said language because “it wasn’t what [she] meant by it. It’s what the character meant.” When the reader pressed for her to admit that “[she has] changed since then”, PC Cast doubled down, insisting that the language was strictly a reflection of then-current “teen speak” and there was no further explanation needed.
That was in early July of 2019. On April 24 of 2021, she had the following exchange, also on Twitter:
We sere here that she still somewhat deflects blame by continuing to insist the language she used “was in the [Oklahoma] teen vernacular”, but also claims she has “been asking for years to go back and get rid of lots of problematic words from the early books.” She has a similar exchange on July 7th of the same year:
Here, PC Cast readily agrees that the language is problematic (“I absolutely agree” versus “It’s there”) and “take[s] full responsibility” for it. She once again claims to “have been petitioning Macmillan for years to allow [her] to go back in and fix the horribly problematic language.” Given that it has only been one year, nine months, and 20 days since she defended that same language and deflected all responsibility for it, it is literally impossible for her to have been petitioning for these changes for “years”. Unless she was publicly pretending to defend the language and deflect responsibility while privately fighting for it to be changed, but I don’t see why that would be the case.
On September 9th, 2021, Bad Book Bash made a post on Facebook tagging PC Cast, Kristin Cast, and the official House of Night Facebook page. They also made a similar post on Instagram and tagged Kristin Cast. In both instances, they called out the authors for the rampant slut shaming in their books, and asked if they had any defense of or response to this aspect of their writing. [BadBookBash 2021] Neither author responded to the Facebook post, but Kristin Cast responded on Instagram.
There is a lot of slut shaming and other offensive and problematic language in the HoN series. PC and I have been working with Macmillan and sensitivity and authenticity readers to change and update these novels. I’m proud to say that the ebook version of Marked no longer contains any of this cringeworthy and ignorant language. [BadBookBash 2021]
Marked was originally published in October of 2007 and, as I said, this comment was made in September of 2021. It was almost 15 years before any effort was made to address the heavily problematic content that the House of Night series is rife with, much of which cannot be fixed by simply changing or removing a few words and phrases. Moreover, these corrections have been done quietly — as of the end of 2021, the only place where either author has advertised the corrected ebook version of Marked is in the comment from Kristin Cast that I quoted above, which was left in response to a post from a very small Instagram account. Though P.C. Cast promotes the books somewhat regularly on both her Facebook author page and the official House of Night Facebook page, she has never once announced or promoted the updated ebook release of Marked. Do note that these changes have only been made to the ebook; the print copies remain unchanged.
It also rings hollow when we never saw them publicly petitioning the publisher to make these changes — even though they consistently found time to egg fans into harassing companies in the interest of movies and TV shows being made about their series.
For context, in 2008, the film rights for House of Night were sold to producers Michael Birnbaum and Jeremiah Chechik. [Hewitt 2008] The film was optioned first by Empire Pictures, [Bierly 2011], and then Davis Films in 2011. [Rosenfield 2011] However, the films were soon stuck in development hell, with no progress beyond a written screenplay announced for several years. As early as 2014, Kristin Cast told fans on a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that “If you’re tired of waiting, you can always contact Samuel Hadida, our producer with Davis Films, and tell him to hurry up!” [KCastAuthor 2014] In the same year, P.C. Cast posted to her official Facebook author page telling commiserating with fans’ frustration that the movies had yet to start casting and filming, and told fans to “FLOOD THEIR SITE. TELL HADIDA TO GET THE MOVIES MADE.” [House of Night 2014a] She and Kristin Cast made similar posts as least two other times just in 2014. [House of Night 2014b; House of Night 2014c] And as early as 2016, P.C. Cast was telling fans on Twitter and Goodreads that they should address concerns and complaints about the films not being made to Samuel Hadida. [pccastauthor 2016; pccastauthor 2018a; pccastauthor 2018b; pccastauthor 2018c; Yarzi and P.C. Cast 2017; Hallow and P.C. Cast 2017] She went a step further with the release of the first two books of House of Night: Other World, including the following in the Q&A section of both books:
If you want to make your voice heard and tell Samuel Hadida you would like the HoN to come to film (or TV!). Here is his contact information. He’s not listening to the authors. Maybe he’ll listen to the fans! [Cast and Cast 2017: 286; Cast and Cast 2018: 336]
She then proceeds to give out information to contact him over Twitter, Facebook, email, and snail mail. I must stress that this was included in two published books, meaning anyone picking up these books in the future is going to see this same call to action and be encouraged to harass a company over film rights long after the issue has been resolved.
In October of 2019, it was announced that the series was instead being adapted for a TV show, produced by Don Carmody and David Cormican. By January of 2020, P.C. Cast was already telling fans on Twitter to contact networks and ask them to pick up the TV series. [pccastauthor 2020] Since then, she has made over 30 tweets encouraging fans to contact their favourite networks and petition for the series to get picked up. She has done much the same numerous times on Facebook. [House of Night 2020a; House of Night 2020b; House of Night 2020c; House of Night 2021]
All of this is to say: If the authors have the time, energy, and dedication to encourage fans to contact producers and networks about getting the series adapted to film/TV, why was there no public effort to convince their publisher to let them fix the problematic content in their books? Allegedly, they had been fighting for years to make these changes. Given the years they spent encouraging fans to hound first Samuel Hadida and later networks, they are clearly aware of the power of their clout and fan support when it comes to getting what they want.
This lack of public effort, combined with the fact that P.C. Cast seemed to lie about how long she was fighting against her publisher to remove problematic language, makes it appear as though these issues aren’t actually a priority or even concern for the authors.
Moreover, even if the authors had genuinely been working for a long time to make these changes to the House of Night series, this does nothing to address the problems in other books they’ve released.
What Came Before and What Continues On
As I’ve already highlighted in past essays, the House of Night series is filled with harmful representations of queer people, black people, and indigenous people, as well as sex shaming and sexism; ableism; glorification of abuse; demonizing and trivializing addiction, mental illness, and disordered eating; body shaming; romanticising age-inappropriate relationships and student-teacher romances; religious bigotry, etc. P.C. Cast has attributed at least some of this to “[using] the vernacular teens were using to connect with them.” [pccastauthor 2019]
But these problems aren’t isolated to the House of Night series, nor are they only present in young adult books these authors have written — together or separately.
Let’s start from the beginning. P.C. Cast’s first book, Divine by Mistake, is an adult romantic fantasy novel originally published under the title Goddess by Mistake in 2001. It contains rampant sex shaming and numerous instances of degrading women as “sluts”, [Cast 2006a: 13, 74, 102, 155, 163, 207, 228, 332, 341] mocking and shaming eating disorders, [Cast 2006a: 22, 263, 339] fatphobia, [Cast 2006a: 587] and mocking and stigmatizing mental illness. [Cast 2006a: 43, 61, 67, 458] There is also a long tirade shaming, trivializing, and stigmatizing drug use, while also insulting the intelligence and worth of students who struggle with or show disinterest in school, and condoning physical abuse of those students. It must be noted that P.C. Cast was a high school English teacher when she wrote this book.
Even in my dreams I’m too professional to mention any names, but I will describe said student as a replica of The Missing Link, if The Link had been introduced to marijuana, so that his general appearance had become reminiscent of a Neanderthal-like sloth. His mommy was blond, perky and extremely well dressed — begging the question: just exactly how much alcohol and/or recreational drugs had she consumed while he was in utero?
I was just explaining to Mommy, accompanied by a standing ovation from the counselor and the vice principal […], that her sixteen-year-old “baby boy” was neither under-challenged nor too bright to be interested in sophomore English, he was simply a lazy, whiny, pot-smoking brat who could be the poster child for why we should bring back caning into America’s public schools… [Cast 2006a: 641]
The sex shaming persists as this series continues, [Cast 2006b: 167; Cast 2007a: 504] as does the fatphobia, [Cast 2006b: 266; Cast 2007a: 121–122, 435] and stigmatizing and trivializing mental illness. [Cast 2006b: 165, 281, 302; Cast 2007a: 125, 392] But the continuation of the series sees new problems, such as degrading poor people [Cast 2006b: 242] and adding in dehumanization of indigenous peoples and a White Savior narrative. [Cast 2006b: 235, 236, 467, 504–508, 536; Cast 2007a: 194, 223–224, 385] There is also a strange pattern of shaming both fat bodies and thin bodies while presenting it as body positivity throughout this series.
I work out like a fiend, but I always seem to carry around about five to ten pounds more than I wish I did. I’m not the lean, lanky, anorexic type that’s so “in” today — I’m the voluptuous, chesty, hippy, leggy type. [Cast 2006a: 22]
“Good Lord, don’t tell me you look thin,” I accused my reflection. Not that I was fat before, but I have never been considered thin. […]
I pulled off my clothes and continued studying myself. Sure enough, except for a cute little pooch of a tummy, I looked thin. My ribs were sticking out! I’ve never considered thin women particularly attractive. I mean, really. How can you look like a woman if you’re shaped like a little boy? [Cast 2006b: 380]
This type of description is also found in Goddess of Spring, which is part of her Goddess Summoning series, which is also adult romantic-fantasy.
The fullness of her hips said that she might consider going hungry once in a while. Not that she was fat, she amended quickly, she was just voluptuous. And voluptuous wasn’t particularly “in” today. She huffed under her breath. She would never understand the current generation’s obsession with waif-like women who starved and puked everything feminine from their bodies. [Cast 2004: 60]
The Goddess Summoning series also offers more of the same:
- sex shaming [Cast 2005: 198, 256; Cast 2006c: 123; Cast 2007b: 253; Cast 2008a: 139, 173, 185, 242; Cast 2010a: 143]
- fatphobia [Cast 2004: 60; Cast 2005: 51, 72, 70, 95; Cast 2007b: 57; Cast 2008a: 303; Cast 2010a: 193, 383]
- trivializing and shaming disordered eating [Cast 2004: 60]
- mockery and demonizing of mental illness [Cast 2004: 429; Cast; Cast 2006c: 42, 119; Cast 2008a: 221]
- exotification/fetishization of people of colour [Cast 2006c: 22; Cast 2007b: 83; Cast 2008a: 38, 185]
- use of the slur “retard” [Cast 2005: 498]
- degrading poor people [Cast 2005: 86; Cast 2006c: 38]
- heavy stereotyping and offensive jokes about gay men and lesbians. [Cast 2005: 39, 55, 334, 355; 2007b: 312, 314; Cast 2008a: 37]
This last category is especially egregious in Goddess of Light due to the protagonist’s lesbian best friend, leading to writing like this:
“Let us review the old joke. What does a lesbian take with her on a second date?” She paused expectantly.
“A U-Haul trailer so she can move in,” Pamela provided. [Cast 2005: 256]
V was most definitely a lesbian. Not a man-hating, cynical lesbian. Vernelle liked men. She just didn’t like sleeping with them. She had explained it to Pamela like this: “Men bore me. After I’ve been with one for a little while I think I’d rather blow my brains out than wake up next to him and listen to his inane, manly blather for the rest of my life. Now women…” Her hazel eyes had sparkled and her grin had turned her face pixielike. “Women I can listen to forever.” [Cast 2005: 54]
(Note that her explanation of why she’s a lesbian implies that queerness is a choice she made.)
I’ve written short essays about two of her other books, Moon Chosen and The Dysasters, the latter being coauthored with her daughter, Kristin Cast. I won’t reiterate either essay here. To put it simply, Moon Chosen is rife with dehumanization of dark-skinned characters, [Cast 2016: 289, 319, 504, 522, 526] including one of the protagonists using black face. [Cast 2016: 9, 39–40] The dark-skinned Earth Walkers are consistently described as plain or ugly, [Cast 2016: 39, 147, 210, 427] whereas the white-coded Companions are described as refined and beautiful. [Cast 2016: 40, 113, 451, 458] The book also features a blind character who needs no aids to navigate her surroundings and behaves as if she is not disabled, as seen in descriptions like, “She had no eyes, but her steps never faltered.” [Cast 2016: 305] With The Dysasters, the core issues are exotification of black people, [Cast and Cast 2019: 3, 4, 64, 67, 162] fatphobia, [Cast and Cast 2019: 46, 133] demonizing mental illness, [Cast and Cast 2019: 61, 84, 124] and a trans character having her goals, fears, hopes, and backstory revolve almost exclusively around being trans.
As for Kristin Cast, it’s harder to find examples that can be fully attributed to her. With something like The Dysasters, it’s hard to know what exactly was written by her and what came from her mother. When it comes to her solo work, there are only three small sources I personally have access to. One is her short story in Immortal: Love Stories With Bite, titled Amber Smoke (not to be confused with the first novel in her series The Escaped, which bears the same title). This short story includes language that trivializes mental illness, [Cast 2008b: 52, 54, 57, 64] describing messy hair with the derogatory term “nappy”, [Cast 2008b: 57] and making a joke out of someone abusing wine and Xanax. [Cast 2008b: 71] There is also curious language regarding people waiting at a bus stop, describing them as “gross” [Cast 2008b: 51] and calling one a “bus person creeper”. [Cast 2008b: 51] This could be interpreted as disgust and aversion toward poor and homeless people, as they are more likely to use buses or bus shelters.
The second source I have access to is another short story called Above, which was published in Kisses from Hell. This story includes exotification of dark skin [Cast 2010b: 127, 137] and language stigmatizing mental illness. [Cast 2010b: 139, 150]
And the third source is an essay she wrote for Nyx in the House of Night, titled Misunderstood. While discussing the history and contemporaneity of polygamy, polygyny, and polyamory, Kristin Cast specifically cites rap music and videos as promoting the idea that men should be with multiple women, and implies that this necessarily results in STIs. [Cast 2011: 213] This not only is a form of sex shaming by associating promiscuity with disease, but by specifically and exclusively referencing rap music, a genre heavily associated with black culture, Kristin Cast perpetuates the hypersexualization of black people.
Aside from these few short works, I have only read novels that Kristin Cast has coauthored with her mother. However, here is where I want to draw attention to an important point in regards to Kristin Cast’s authorial credits. To date, she has 32 distinct works to her name in the form of novels, novellas, short stories, and one essay. 20 of these credits are outright lies — she did not write any part of the original 12 House of Night novels, the 4 House of Night: Other World novels, or the 4 House of Night novellas. She served as a teen voice editor and frontline editor, meaning she should have some form of editorial credit rather than being billed as a coauthor. [Cast and Cast 2017: 277; Cast and Cast 2018: 332; Cast and Cast 2020: 358, 363; Rought 2020; Fricot 2019] Despite this, Kristin Cast and P.C. Cast have both referred to her as an author, writer, or coauthor on the House of Night series in various interviews and social media posts. [WednesdayBooks 2020; KCastAuthor 2014; BookTrib 2016a 04:38] She is also referred to in this way in various interviews, and neither she nor her mother make any effort to correct the false claim. [BookTrib 2016b 05:09, 15:40; BookTrib 2016a 22:15]
20 out of 32 (or 62.5%) of her credentials being false is already pretty bad, but it goes further. Much of her other work either directly connects her to the House of Night series as a coauthor, or is attached to her mother’s name and thus benefits from her clout and success. For example, her essay Misunderstood is in an anthology that is edited by her mother, a companion work to the House of Night series, and credits her as a coauthor of that series in the anthology subtitle and her About The Author section. Similarly, her Amber Smoke short story is included in an anthology edited by her mother, and in her About The Author section, she claims to be a New York Times bestselling author, which, in 2008, is only possible if she’s claiming authorship of House of Night. Amber Smoke and Scarlet Rain, the first two books in her since-discontinued solo series The Escaped, credit her as the “#1 New York Times Bestselling Co-Author of the House of Night series” on the front cover, right above her name. [Diversion Books (a); Diversion Books (b)] We see similar on the cover of The Scent of Salt & Sand, a companion novella that she coauthored with her mother, which boasts the pair as “#1 New York Times Bestselling Authors of the House of Night Series”. [Diversion Books (c)] The descriptions of these books go even further on this lie, claiming she “[blends] elements of mythology with the dazzling storytelling that her fans have devoured through the HOUSE OF NIGHT series,” [Diversion Books (a)] and reiterating that she is “The co-author of the New York Times bestselling House of Night series”, [Diversion Books (b)] and she and her mother are “The co-authors of the bestselling House of Night series”. [Diversion Books (c)] Most of her other work is actually coauthored with her mother, including The Dysasters, and the first book and forthcoming second book of the Sisters of Salem trilogy.
She does have two novels written entirely independently of her mother: The Key to Fear and The Key to Fury, an adult dystopian duology. The first book came out in late 2020, long after she had already built a name for herself off of lies about coauthoring the House of Night series, and benefiting from it and her mother’s name being attached to almost everything else she has written. Moreover, when promoting The Key to Fear, Kristin Cast released an exclusive House of Night short story for people who preordered the book. [kcastauthor 2020] Thus, even this solo novel strongly benefited from her falsely claiming to coauthor the House of Night series, as that is what lends authenticity to this short story.
Of her 32 authorial credits, 30 (or 93.75%) are either part of House of Night, something she coauthored with her mother or published in an anthology edited by her mother, or were books directly promoted by the claim that she coauthored House of Night. This matters because even if her solo novels are free from the sex shaming, fatphobia, exotification, ableism, etc. of the House of Night series and her mother’s other works, she still benefits from the success of that harmful content. The more popular the House of Night series becomes, the more readers want to buy anything associated to it, and the better known her name becomes. The more clout her mother gains as an author, the more support that lends to her daughter via their actual coauthored work, which in turn grows Kristin Cast’s fanbase.
How Many Lines Can Be Crossed?
What is the limit on second chances? With just the House of Night series, P.C. Cast has written (and Kristin Cast has been complicit in) deeply problematic and harmful content spanning from 2007 to 2020. And if we look at their work outside that series, they’ve been producing similarly harmful and problematic content from 2001 up to 2019 — and that’s just based on the examples I’ve read. Spells Trouble, the first book in their Sisters of Salem trilogy, was published in 2021 and is described by various reviewers as white savior narrative, [Noelle 2021; Meaghan — H&WR 2021] full of cultural appropriation, [Allison 2021] containing an uncomfortably detailed scene depicting two minors having sex, [Noelle 2021; Meaghan — H&WR 2021] and the only queer character being constantly bullied and miserable. [Meaghan — H&WR 2021; Leah 2021]
If someone has consistently produced harm for almost two decades, there comes a point where we need to stop rewarding them. Because why would we continue to trust that they’ll change? Why would we continue to expect better of them? Imagine you commission the same artist on a regular basis for numerous years and the process is always offensive, tedious, and full of false promises. Why would you keep employing them? Why, year after year, would you say, “But they could learn and be better. I have to give them a chance to correct their past.”
You wouldn’t. And you wouldn’t owe them that.
The same hold true of authors. And when these authors have consistently produced books full of fatphobia; sex shaming and internalized misogyny; harmful depictions of queerness; exotification and dehumanization of black and indigenous peoples; ableism; stigmatizing and trivializing mental illness, addiction, and disordered eating; religious bigotry; glorification of abuse — just to name a few problems — why should we continue showing them our support? All that does is tell them (and publishers) that you like what you see, that you accept or even agree with the views and values espoused in their work. Why would you want publishers to continue printing and promoting content like this? And why should we encourage these authors to branch out to new platforms, new mediums, as will be the case if the House of Night series succeeds in getting adapted for television?
There are limits to patience, limits to forgiveness, limits to second chances. After twenty years, I think P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast have run out on all three. Where do you stand?
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pccastauthor. (2018a, June 5). “This would be a dream come true, but Samuel Hadida at @Metropolitan_Fr ownes the rights to the series and is doing squat with it. His option ends in 2020. THEN I’d love to find a producer who would take a project to @netflix!” Twitter. Retrieved December 27, 2021 (https://twitter.com/pccastauthor/status/1004075609104867328).
pccastauthor. (2018b, July 8). “Tell Samuel Hadida at @Metropolitan_Fr He’s owned the film rights since 2011 and is doing squat with them.” Twitter. Retrieved December 27, 2021 (https://twitter.com/pccastauthor/status/1015828239166656513).
pccastauthor. (2018c, August 26). “Samuel Hadida bought the film rights in 2011 and has done squat with them. They revert to me in 2020 when I will work on selling them to a producer who will keep his/her word. I give details & contact information for Hadida in the Q&A in the rear of the new books.” Twitter. Retrieved December 27, 2021 (https://twitter.com/pccastauthor/status/1033551221557145600).
pccastauthor. (2019, July 4). “I began writing the series in 2005. It was important to me to use the vernacular teens were using to connect with them. It’s now 2019 & much of those early books are outdated. If that bothers you so much you can’t see beyond it I understand and encourage you to stop reading.” Twitter. Retrieved January 2, 2022 (https://twitter.com/pccastauthor/status/1146677262646829057).
pccastauthor. (2020, January 18). “I’ll post as soon as we have them! While you’re waiting let your dream network know you want them to pick up the HoN series!” Twitter. Retrieved December 27, 2021 (https://twitter.com/pccastauthor/status/1218644877040181248).
pccastauthor. (2021a, April 24). “It’s there. Back in 2005 when I started writing HoN is was in the OK teen vernacular, which is why I used it. I’ve been asking for years to go back and get rid of lots of problematic words from the early books. Finally making headway on that. It’s not in the Other World books.” Twitter. Retrieved January 2, 2022 (https://twitter.com/pccastauthor/status/1386053273954570241).
pccastauthor. (2021b, July 7). I absolutely agree. The early HoN books were insensitive. I take full responsibility, sincerely apologize and have been petitioning Macmillan for years to allow me to go back in and fix the horribly problematic language. I’ve finally made headway. Stay tuned for reissued books!” Twitter. Retrieved January 2, 2022 (https://twitter.com/pccastauthor/status/1412610947848425473).
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