Review: Not for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
I downloaded this when it was just called "The Night Walk Men," apparently more stories have been added since then.  That makes sense, because this just doesn't really make sense on it's own.It's a story about . . . well, I'm still not really sure.  It's about the "Night Walk Men" and it's narrated by I'm-not-sure-who.  Who are the Night Walk Men?  At the end of the story, I was no more able to answer that question than I was at the beginning of the story.  They're some sort of mythical creatures -- semi-gods?  Or maybe just representations of abstract qualities such as "fate."  They interact with humans and we hear about part of what happens to some humans.  I could have handled the ambiguity, but I'm just not a fan of the ponderous and semi-epic tone of McIntyre's prose.  I felt like every page contained a promise that the mysteries would be explained, but at the end of the story, I still had no idea what was going on.I don't know.  Maybe I'm not smart enough to get it.  It felt like second-rate Clive Barker to me (without the gore).