Talk:Do You Remember Me?/@comment-25021327-20150131033823

I saw that this was a sequel from front page comments and such, so I went and read the first one before reading this. I'll touch on both, I guess. Both the writings are quite similar. They are less "stories" in the typical sense, and more of straight narrations. It's a nice change from the traditional narrative of a spooky story, so that's good.

In Bedtime Stalker we get a pretty standard iagining of The Boogeyman, mosty talking about hiding in plain sight, and being part of the shadows. The whole thing has the feel that it is building to something, and I suppsoe that is the reveal of the narrator's identity at the end. Although I appreciate that there actually is a payoff in the final line, It didn't do much for me, as I had never heard of the Ombra, wouldn't have been able to guess it from the clues of the story, and figured it was just a standard boogeyman. Also, I wasnt sure what the lne about being the tormentor of those who don't abide his rule meant exactly. I never got much of a feel for what the Ombra expects from people, or what the subject of the piece did to invoke his ire.

After reading this one, I still don;t know any more about the narrator. I haven't gone and researched to see if doing so will make these writings more relevant to me, but I may. This piece seems just like a continuation, in that it seems to be doing the exact same thing as the prequel. It is simply a boogeyman talking about who he is and what he does, but this one acknowledges the passage of time for the hapless victim.

Both stories had some interesting descriptions and vocabulary, but I felt there were also some odd wordings at points. Nothing really bad, or distracting from the stories though. For what these are, I think they work pretty well introducing readers to a spook they might not know of, though I'm not sure that this piece adds much to what the first did. But these are quick reads, and fairly enjoyable, with a more pleasant narrative voice than a lot of other stories about a manster int he dark.