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beentsy's review
4.0
I really liked this story. The tension during the interviews between Dr. Armstrong and Kirkwood was excellent and the stress just built and built. I was a bit sad to have it end so quick.
energyrae's review
4.0
A mining foreman, Kirkwood has showed up the hospital after a mining accident, ranting, "They're watching us down below!" Fascinated, Dr. Michaelson has called in our initial narrator, Dr. Vince Armstrong. Through his notes, we watch what spectators might assume is Kirkwood's decent into madness. But the true horror might just be that it isn't madness at all.
So I found the oncoming threat of tunnelers interesting. That they want to live an existence away from humans is typical, but nothing about them is typical, and they will do anything to keep their secret. Through the notes, you watch Armstrong and subsequently Michaelson go from disbelief to knowing.
An incredibly short story, The Tunnelers was a quick read in time, and in the aspect that you don't want to stop reading to find out what is happening. It was great at creating a chilling atmosphere with the impending doom. Nicely done.
So I found the oncoming threat of tunnelers interesting. That they want to live an existence away from humans is typical, but nothing about them is typical, and they will do anything to keep their secret. Through the notes, you watch Armstrong and subsequently Michaelson go from disbelief to knowing.
An incredibly short story, The Tunnelers was a quick read in time, and in the aspect that you don't want to stop reading to find out what is happening. It was great at creating a chilling atmosphere with the impending doom. Nicely done.
unwrappingwords's review
4.0
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The Tunnellers is a short, tense read that will have the reader gripped from the very first page. Told as a series of entries by Dr. Armstrong, the epistolary format works really well to drop the reader right into the action, as Armstrong tries to untangle the events that brought mining foreman Kirkwood under his care.
The story has an old-fashioned feel to it, with the initial narrator presenting a forward, then expanding on the events at the end. And the framing device works, allowing The Tunnelers to read like one of the old classics of horror, giving an element of uncertainty to the events and really putting the reader into the mind of Armstrong.
The Tunnellers is a short, tense read that will have the reader gripped from the very first page. Told as a series of entries by Dr. Armstrong, the epistolary format works really well to drop the reader right into the action, as Armstrong tries to untangle the events that brought mining foreman Kirkwood under his care.
The story has an old-fashioned feel to it, with the initial narrator presenting a forward, then expanding on the events at the end. And the framing device works, allowing The Tunnelers to read like one of the old classics of horror, giving an element of uncertainty to the events and really putting the reader into the mind of Armstrong.
catsluvcoffee's review
4.0
The Tunnelers tells the story through documentation of one Dr. Vincent Armstrong, a community psychiatrist at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Care Center, after his disappearance. We are told from the start that the police who have seen the document, dismissed it as being immaterial to the investigation. However, the narrator believes differently.
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