Talk:The Journal of Carter Pormon/@comment-31077845-20170131171351

I understand the draw of...my english skills should be proficient enough for me to come up with a single word to describe this, but creepily ambiguous endings, endings that suggest that the person didn't REALLY win, but in this case it just kind of feels mean spirited. So, this thing brutally, gorily murders children including the grandmother's childhood friend, decapitated and feasted on the protagonist's god damned mother, resulted in the burning down of both his and his grandmother's home, got him sent to an asylum where the records will surely forever show that he probably murdered his mother...after that level of suffering and sacrifice it's ok to just have the monster be beaten rather than suggesting "Oh well, looks like all the work and suffering on the part of the protagonist and his grandmother to an extent was meaningless and this thing is going to kill the protagonist and continue to capture and rip apart children for an indeterminate amount of time!". Not every story has to have a "BUT DID THEY REALLY WIN?!" ending.