Silenus really isn't a happy story. Unless you consider the blue ending--the suicide one--to be happy, which we sort of do. Of course, that mirrors the SH games... In Silent Hill, the best thing you can usually hope for is suicide, too.

That sounds awfully depressing.

We really wanted to tackle the concepts of disassociation and child abuse in Silenus, and if you can stomach reading further you can see how we tried. Truth be told, I think it is an acquired taste. We have fans who raved--all of them generally horror buffs--but just as many people who couldn't handle reading it at all, even our best friends. We're violating canon pretty heavily for one, and then there's just the... violation. :(