Review: Puzzling
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2012
This review contains spoilers.The author does a good job of creating a creepy setting, but there are too many unanswered questions for me:  Why, in the face of an unexplained event that makes people violent, would the Park Ranger insist on everybody gathering in the same location - wouldn't that just make tragedy more likely rather than less likely?  What was the "rumblin'" and why doesn't anybody besides the Park Ranger do anything about it - shouldn't somebody stop people from camping there?  If the "rumblin'" makes people violent, why did that guy bring the picture of Phil with him?  Why does the Park Ranger talk like Uncle Remus - is the author under the impression that he has somehow captured an American dialect with his "sho do"s and so forth?At the end of the story, I had so many questions that it undercut any enjoyment the story may have provided.  Creating a violent situation isn't the beginning and end of a good horror story - actions have to fit into some sort of context, you can't just create a vague supernatural structure and blame everything on that.