I'm not sure if it was supposed to be scary or not. For me, it wasn't. While I got used to the long winding sentences, I couldn't fell the chill of the place or the eerie feeling that paralyzed the narrator. It seemed quite foggy, just like the marsh and its surroundings. The actual plot was quite simple with bare minimum information about the ghost, while it had just about everything about the locations. Only the abrupt ending added some pace to the dragging narrative.