Up From The Bottomless Pit And Other Stories by Philip José Farmer

A compact collection of darkly imaginative short fiction that moves between horror, science fiction and satirical pulp; its varied tales follow ordinary and eccentric protagonists who encounter monstrous forces, uncanny revelations and moral absurdities, exploring themes of obsession, identity, mortality and the porous boundary between the civilized and the grotesque with a blend of lurid invention and wry, transgressive humor.