The Broken Halloween

I am stunned when I learned that The Last Halloween is done.  Mona gets swallowed by a blob, whose flesh is contaminated by a gamer.  The monster who has been stalking her cannot extract her from the blob that ate her.  Its heart is broken.  The end.

That really annoys me that the story ends without any resolution to the other story lines (the Phagocyte and the doctor, the Queen of the Cursed, and Mona's companions).  It may be true that Abby Howard did not intend for her creation to last beyond a year.  And it is true that Abby Howard has a habit to end her tales sadly or painfully (the ending of O! Whistle, and I’ll Come To You, My Lad is not as in the original).

Still, it is very jarring when a tale that compelling ends without any kind of resolution.  Just as in real life.  And it still pisses me off.

Update (18 november 2014)

She had me (and everyone else) fooled, that rascally Abby Howard. The Mona saga continues with Mona going nutso with the scythe in the blob. Yeah, Mona!