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It's triggering to me as a survivor of SA.

Majken was another memorable and interesting story in the collection, possibly my favorite so far. I think Eternal/Love is a good example of Lindqvist's knack for subdued supernatural horror and Majken is moreso a demonstration of character exploration and the banal horror of reality itself.

Just read Eternal/Love and found it was the best story out of the collection thus far. The ending was a bit overdone but it is yet a solid story

Read Itsy Bitsy and The Substitute. The Substitute is another worthwhile read among this collection, but Itsy Bitsy feels half-written.

I just finished Equinox and so far it's the best story (out of the first three).

I just finished reading Village in the Sky and it feels like an inside joke that I haven't quite caught onto yet. That's the only good explanation for why I found it laughable that doesn't feed my disappointment.

I finished reading The Border and feel bemused. Though its concept of a humanoid race of insects and body horror is interesting, I'm ultimately ambivalent. The genderbending aligns with the use of an ovipositor as reproduction but it remains unclear to me why the choice of having the gender presentation be swapped was made -- is this gender non-conforming supposed to add to the horror?

This is such an important and life-changing reference book for women who want to understand our history, embrace a spiritual practice that honors our lived bodily experiences, reconnects us to a deeper sense of connectedness than patriarchy or capitalism allows, and get inspired.

I'm still on the first story and already appreciating the character-driven escalation of the uncanny. A focus on the human experience in which the weird, uncanny, and horrifying is embedded is part of what I love about Lovecraft's work.

The prose is dense, rich, and lush. This is reminiscent of The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Dunwich Horror; a unique manifestation of cosmic horror and Lovecraftian storytelling drawing upon the fear of the unknown dwelling in the ocean and the mystery of eldritch powers beyond human comprehension which are dangerous to even become aware of. Loving it! It's much more formidable than its length would seem to portend

Began slow and was a bit hard to get into, but definitely picking up in part 2.

It's harder to read than I expected because implied pedophilia and incest are off-putting, especially because it doesn't seem like the author intended to make any point about either. Unlike Let the Right One In, this so far doesn't seem like a subversion of the sexualization of vampires except perhaps that the sexual aspect of feeding is from the vampire's perspective.