Okay, I can now say I've read this book. Was it scary? It had its moments, and maybe if I read it all in just a few, long, sittings I would have gotten into it more and therefore gotten into my head. Yet the book itself prevents you from reading it quickly or settling down into it. Your reading is constantly jarred by footnotes or back and forth between Zampano's writing and Truant's spiraling anecdotes, but that doesn't really scare me, it just annoys me.

So yeah, not really my type of horror, but at least I can now say I've read it when I see all those "best horror ever written" threads and whatnot. I guess I'm not "intellectual" enough for this kind of horror?