Talk:The Wicker House/@comment-28575580-20161116060212

One of the finest pastiche pieces to Lovecraft I've read so far. I agree with Mike's comments, except for two reasons: literary cynicism and emotive reality.

Some writers can get a little carried away with getting all over abrupt endings. Their reasons are true, yes...but:

In reality, most of us would become pretty despondent. This is something Lovecraft missed. His temperament, anti-sexual stocism etc. and the times in which he lived contributed to his writing lacking some of the feeling we expect in stories today; for this reason, tales like The Hound and The Call of Cthulhu have rather unrealistic endings considering what their narrators went through. This story however incorporates a final emotion more in keeping with reality, with the kind of despondency one might feel at the end.