to be honest, this seems more like a portfolio of the work a creative writing student produced during a class that focused on either horror writing or experimenting with form. I love both of those things and I think a couple of these stories are really successful (The Last Sailing of the “Henry Charles Morgan” in Six Pieces of Scrimshaw (1841) and Crossing, though I wouldn't call the latter horror) but the rest are, I'm sorry, messes. there is a big case of Stephen King syndrome going on here, where genuinely good premises get so crammed full of ideas that they just completely fall over. I'm not ragging on experimentation or student work (I am a student), but Ihis, to me, reads like a collection of first drafts.