Rare that I drop something I'm reading since I tend to be pretty stubborn but I could not get through this. Out of the stories I managed to get through I enjoyed about two of them. 'Soda Jerk' and 'Ateuchus' were the highlights for me, the former leaning more on the side of mild enjoyment. The voice, the prose were the standout gripes for me. Too many run on sentences, big inconsistency in timelines in one of the stories. Odd descriptions that really took me out of the 'flow'.

I will admit I was oversold on the quality of this collection. Before going into this I saw numerous recommendations praising the book for one of the 'best' collections of horror stories even the leading introduction heralded it as "the best" but I felt utterly disappointed.