John Lukegord's "The Haunted Trail" is a story of fear following the troublesome event following the legendary Haunted Trail in the barren forest of Dublin, Ireland. It is Halloween in the 1800s, the air is full of mystery and murder. This short story combines concise and concise chapters into the library to introduce madness and violent crime to humankind. Casts of mummies, psychiatric patients, ghosts, bombs, and other unusual characters and pathologic killings help you knit an interesting mysterious story.
The sensation and color of the story are instantly set in the first chapter that totally warned me as a reader. You can know as soon as this story never leaves you with the happy ending that we often expect. The story begins with a horrible killing of two young boys who wonder at the forest, making angry the evil men who claim that they are their own, with no relation at all. My feeling was initially shocked by killing two small children from the beginning of the story. This literary decision served to shape my expectation and to prepare for the rest of the miserable story.
One of the components I enjoyed about this story was that seemingly unrelated side story all occurred at the same time. At first, the chapters seem to be independent of each other. However, as the reader progresses through the book, the interconnectivity of events will begin to appear. When the body count is enough, the story line gets settled.
Through such a story of Goa, we do not spend a lot of time developing the character, and the reader can keep on guessing. The main focus is Gore's conduct and an attempt to survive. One of the chapters is to introduce the reader to a collection of brothers that only Mick Patrizan can escape. A new twist is introduced into the story so that he will be a lot of the focus part of the story line. You are given a person who can invest emotionally.
Sometimes the story seems contradictory but never distracts from the story. I believe that the cluttiness of the evil of the night partly holds the story line together. For readers who want unexpected things and can handle stories without the usual satisfying endings, "The Haunted Trail" is a short reading that brings many mysteries and mayhems within that page.
