![]() ![]() Don't Go Into the Woods: The theme of the entire work.They try not to think too hard about the fact that he fell on soft ground with nothing to hit his head on, or how severe the damage was. Death by Falling Over: An old man being found dead is explained by "Old people fall all the time, it's no big deal".Played to interesting effect off the narrator's slightly jaded attitude toward the mundane horrors a search and rescue team member experiences. Daylight Horror: the majority of the strange things the narrator experiences are seen in the daytime, while out on a search patrol.At best, it's a "what you don't know can't hurt you" kind of thing. The Conspiracy: It's implied that the higher ups in the search and rescue program know a lot more about what's going on in the woods than they're willing to talk about.It's the things that don't make sense that bother him. these are a fact of life to the narrator. Deaths and injuries, hostile weather, animal attacks. In his defense, he's used to seeing horrors on an everyday basis, and does show unease and horror against unnatural accidents and events. Conditioned to Accept Horror: The officer's slightly jaded reactions to everyday accidents in his field such as missing children, forest fires, and ripped-up animal carcasses can come across as Jerkass behavior to some.Chrome Champion: The man the SAR officer's friend's daughter sees outside the window in "Molten" is loosely described by her as a man with a face half-melted and covered completely in shiny metal.The cause turns out to be a whale, of all things, in the middle of the woods. In a rare non-human example, the officer and his friend are called to investigate a terrible smell.Body in a Breadbox: Victims of the forest are found under the ground, inside rocks and trees, and floating twenty feet in the air.Body Horror: All over the place, but seen the most graphically in "Anniversary", which gives us lovely images such as this:Ī boy walking upside down through the air, almost twenty feet off the ground, carrying his own spine in his arms like a baby.He's also described as being able to conjure up a face when necessary, and inhumanly exaggerating his movements. The Blank: One characteristic of a recurring creature throughout the series.Black Eyes of Evil: In the first entry, a lost woman complains of a "big man with black eyes" following her.Don't go up them." Uttered not only by the protagonist but also a multitude of his fellow SAR officers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Animalistic Abomination: The deer-like creature the SAR officer saw standing behind his friend when he went camping as a kid, and the strange man that takes impossibly long steps and yowls like a cougar.There were, but Hammond didn't say whether it was an allegory or not. Allegory: Some readers interpreted "Radio" as an extended message that there would be more SAR stories.Actually trying to climb the steps will, at best, cause you to zone out while realising that everything around you has gone dead silent, which somehow causes the person you were looking for to become permanently lost, and at worst causes random parts of your body to inexplicably vanish into thin air, leaving you to bleed out from the trauma this causes. Alien Geometries: The flights of stairs that spontaneously appear in the middle of the parks, sometimes upside-down in gravity-defying ways. ![]()
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