At my age, I can certainly empathise more readily with the 75 year old protagonist than I do with those young men from Bradford in some of the other stories. Not ‘bodying forth’ so much as ‘bodying out’! You will see my eyes one day at the windows of death’s gateway – as the protagonist sees the eyes at the window of the soul that belong to the poignant ‘gateway’ creature. I am free-wheeling here. Whatever I think, it is a good yarn. A nice coda to the Lovecraftian “Faust Symphony” that is this book.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here. Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.