I just tried to post something and LJ timed out on me. Curses! Of course, the original post was much better than this one :-).
I'm not generally a fan of horror in the Friday the 13th/Halloween vein, so when I saw that tag I was a bit worried. I shouldn't have been - I found this story to be well-crafted and not just the jump out and slash type scary. It reminded me in some ways of Peter Straub's Ghost Story, which is one of my favorites -- that sense of oppressive, impeding doom which pervades the story.
I loved the dialogue between Mulder and Scully, it sounded just like a really good MOTW episode to me. P's Mulder always seems slightly in awe of Scully, even when he's ticked off or frustrated with her.
I devoured this story quickly when it first came out but now I need to go back and give it a slower read.
BTW, if you have a Kindle and are having trouble downloading it: I had to copy and paste into Word and then email it to my Kindle account. I couldn't download the story to my desktop properly but the copy/paste method worked fine.
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I'm not generally a fan of horror in the Friday the 13th/Halloween vein, so when I saw that tag I was a bit worried. I shouldn't have been - I found this story to be well-crafted and not just the jump out and slash type scary. It reminded me in some ways of Peter Straub's Ghost Story, which is one of my favorites -- that sense of oppressive, impeding doom which pervades the story.
I loved the dialogue between Mulder and Scully, it sounded just like a really good MOTW episode to me. P's Mulder always seems slightly in awe of Scully, even when he's ticked off or frustrated with her.
I devoured this story quickly when it first came out but now I need to go back and give it a slower read.
BTW, if you have a Kindle and are having trouble downloading it: I had to copy and paste into Word and then email it to my Kindle account. I couldn't download the story to my desktop properly but the copy/paste method worked fine.