Talk:NoEnd House/@comment-30868798-20170620175010

This pasta, like many others, suffers from "describe-itis". Every little bit and detail is explained very dryly in the past tense, creating a disassociation where the reader understands the story as being narrated to them from the writer, with full clarity.

This creates some comical narration: read a part from the beginning of the story, then from near the end. The mood of the protagonist (storyteller) jumps from nonchalant slice-of-life to shitting his pants in terror. If the narration is to be written from the first perspective, it has to be assumed that the text was written after the event happened, creating no alternative for many stories like this to end in something like this: "Then I felt better, escaped and wrote this story."

Creepypasta wants to pull "true horror" into the world from fantasy, while, ironically, incorporating the actual horror of the real world without vatting an eye. The protagonist's friend is a heinous crack addict, willing to take a debilitating journey for a measly amount of money.

Speaking of drugs: although the protagonist insists (many times) he has not taken drugs, the presence of mind-altering substances is quite strong in the story. The first paragraph is very often the hook or the "establishing shot" of a story; here we are told that the protagonist's friend is a drug addict. The reading thus suggests that the true horror was that there is nothing supernatural, but that the entire journey is drug-fueled. Perhaps his friend invited him to a pimped-out crack den and somehow slipped him some hallucinogens.

In the context of the story, the protagonist travels to the "real world" in the confines of the house. There are 9 rooms, yet it is called the No End house. The last door is seen in the "real world". We get from this that the actual horror is not in a spook house, but in our own everyday world.