Talk:The Number of Darkness/@comment-26054278-20150901190603/@comment-26030957-20150902000425

Thank you so much for the wonderful critique, Grim. You are an amazing reviewer and your dedication to creepypasta is such an asset to this site.

I am so glad that you liked it.

I am a bit puzzled by how you think I rushed the ending. I spent five weeks researching and writing this piece. It was originally 12,000 words and I edited it down to 9,000. The story ends with the father realizing he had fucked his daughters and impregnated them, snapping his mind like a twig and causing him to set the whole place ablaze. I thought this was a focused and deep concept. It also adds an ambiguous element to the story: was he fucking them the whole time?

There was also the suspicion planted there at the end that the priest was possessed as well and that all of the slaughter from the Humboldt Indian Wars of the 1860's was demonically influenced.

Anyway, I am quite happy that you liked the prose and thought it effective, also that you caught all the symbolism going on in this piece. :)