I, for one, loved this story. It combined my enthusiasm for Lovecraft, and my yearning for a good old fashioned fairy tale. Lovecraft, too, is an author that one tends to hate or love. Perhaps the best authors are. Frankly, I think the people who were criticizing this so harshly at the beginning fail to differentiate between bad writing, and writing they just happen to not like. Its pretentious of them, and rather arrogant.