The Mobius Door

This example of weird horror fiction was satisfyingly creep at its opening through the majority of the story, but then for this reader fizzled out in a cacophony of words trying to describe the indescribable toward the story's resolution. The substance of the tale contains a bit of Stephen King's The Mist mixed with a pinch of Lovecraftian cosmic horror and some of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy strangeness. The story mainly centers around the Bradley family within the small town of Millwood, New Hampshire. Young Stuart Bradley discovers a mysterious door that has appeared within the local woods where he plays with his imaginary friends. After he opens the door and tosses a rock into the black abyss found behind the door, it triggers a cascade of events that leads to his death and subsequent possession of his corpse by the “Visitor” escaping the abyss. Unfortunately, the frigid blackness begins to escape the open door as a cloud subsuming life and horribly mutating everything in its path as it grows. While other characters within Millwood are horribly destroyed by the cloud or another otherworldly stranger seeking to find the “Visitor,” Stuart's mother Heather, his little brother Mica and to a lesser extent his father Will are the main protagonists. What happens to them and how they are touched by and respond to the growing horror shapes the somewhat unsatisfying outcome to the story.