Talk:The Snow/@comment-24077689-20131209234305

You've done a really nice job on this story, it starts out bucolic and has tinges of deep melancholy throughout.

I don't, however, very much care for it when a story references the horror "as if something out of X" other author's work. I feel like this story could stand on its own two feet, find a more creative way to describe the horror rather than "as something out of Poe or Lovecraft". Which, by the way, just because they both wrote horror doesn't make them in anyway very similar. The horrors in Poe's writing are far more often visceral as opposed to Lovecraft's work which is celestial 90% of the time. That description really killed an otherwise very nice little pasta.