I wish I had enjoyed this book more. I really do. But it was just boring most of the time. There were some creepy and interesting quotes about humanity and society. A quote that really stood out to me was "What was the whole literature of supernatural horror but an essay to make death itself exciting?-wonder and strangeness to life's very end." I think about death a lot and the idea of horror being used to try to explain death was interesting to me. I also found the part where

Cal plays the piano and calms the patients in the mental hospital

But overall I felt like reading this was more of a chore despite how short it is.