The best part of having read this is that you;ve finally read the sort of collection of stories by the sort of author who and which appear in stories about people who have read collections of mysterious stories by mysterious authors which exert a strange fascination on the mind and the formation of cult-like devotees, and to which one can make references, as to the northern border town and the red tower and the digestive ailments which afflict his characters and the spiralling deeper and deepr into an obsessive worldview of nightmarish nihilism which devours his characters and the author himself and the readers until they all become consumed by the certainty that they are animated by a vast darkness that has annihilated all nonsense such as mind or spirit and left only an activated organism perpetuating itself. So, there's that.