03-23-2004, 04:46 AM
HP Lovecraft started this fad a long time ago. Classic HP Lovecraft type of story written in modern terms with plenty of description of the fear the protagonist was feeling. I loved it... A delicious horror story with the level of realism high enough to make it "believable". HP's stories were always just bit too fantastic for the fear to really stick in but this writer's descriptions of the tight spaces in the cave and the way the fear drove him back thru Floyd's Tomb was very psychologically compelling. Also the part about the "comedown" after the adrenaline high was really descriptive of the way a meth addict feels most of the time, hallucinating and alternating between periods of manic paranoia and mind numbing depression filled in with hours of meaningless activity searching for "connections" and "clues" to the mystery which doesn't actually exist.
The cliffhanger ending is really the only way to end a story like that, having the protagonist and his buddies go back one last time to "get to the bottom" of the mystery and never return.
It would be an anti-climax to actually have them meet Cthulhu or Yog-Sothoth and come back alive, wouldn't it? :o
Oomph-aak
The cliffhanger ending is really the only way to end a story like that, having the protagonist and his buddies go back one last time to "get to the bottom" of the mystery and never return.
It would be an anti-climax to actually have them meet Cthulhu or Yog-Sothoth and come back alive, wouldn't it? :o
Oomph-aak