Perhaps pulp horror is not for me? But what really stood out is that the author really, really hates fat people. He doesn't let you forget it for a second. Many unpleasant/villainous characters (not the nice ones, mind) were flabby, heavy, fat and therefore, in his own words, grotesque.

The thing is I wasn't even expecting this book to be woke anyway, I presumed it would be a problematic but entertaining horror story. But it was mystifying that it really went out of its way to characterise very minor, random characters as "fat, therefore ugly".