This is a powerful collection of stories; I think I have to revisit them at some point, because I read this book over a long period of time and so that broke up some of the longer pieces--particularly "Especially Heinous," which I think is an inventive and intricate story but which would maybe benefit from being read in a single sitting, and which I did not do. I would say the stories all have a similar feeling/aura to the stories, though they are different enough in feeling to be distinguishable. "Difficult at Parties" is probably the one that hit the hardest for me, but a number of them were very good and moving and eerie all at the same time.