The Caretakers

The illustration is what got me to read this short story in the first place. I was looking for a horror story and the illustration looked quite creepy, which caught my attention.

At the start the story is somewhat confusing as to what is happening exactly and it took me a while to figure that out. From that moment on the story builds up the atmosphere pretty well, but some things are really weird and remain without explanation. As I progressed through the story I felt more and more excited to find out about the horror (which had not yet been mentioned explicitly). I really wanted to know where this was heading.

Then the story completely lost me. I found the final part of the story weird and so confusing that it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of it. The bottom line is: I feel like the story doesn't deliver at all. The ending is basically non-existent and it is very difficult to find the point of the story.