"Doors to Darkness" - its title

[Perdido Sangrenegra]

Why did no editor catch this title and suggest "Doorways to Darkness" instead?

It is probably just me, but "doors" sounds and reads poorly. I know that this is a very petty case of unhomophonous-phobia, but I suspect it is also incorrect: the investigators (and entities) do not pass through doors—they pass through doorways.*

* (I assume. I have not yet bought or read the volume. Apologies if the scenarios are populated by phase shifters.)

[Perdido Sangrenegra]

In defence of my pettiness, I have just noticed that its sequel/companion volume is not titled "Gates to Terror."

[Cloud64]

There are doors, and these doors lead to darkness – if you open them and go through the now open doorway. You can have a doorway without a door, so doorway doesn't necessarily imply that there's a door behind which something dark is hidden, which is what the title conveys to me if I think about it too much. I don't think there's anything wrong with the use of doors in this title. Equally, I doubt most native English speakers would bat an eyelid if 'Doorways' had been used instead.

I'd not considered Gateways to Terror as a sequel. If it is, I am disappointed that they didn't go with the pleasantly alliterative Trapdoors to Terror. Perhaps in that light I should give up hope of ever getting my scenario Anxiety Attic published in Loft-ladders to Lunacy, an anthology of gable roof based investigations. As for Portholes on Panic: Chronicles of Cursed Cruises, that's surely just a distant dream. 
 

 

[Sam E.]

And what's all this nonsense about eyes being windows to the soul?  Clearly, they are windoways to the soul!  And what about Scarecrow's brain?!!!!

[Sam E.]

5 hours ago, Cloud64 said:

I am disappointed that they didn't go with the pleasantly alliterative Trapdoors to Terror.

I believe you mean, "Trapdoorways to Terror" ...