Almost a very good book

Fist of all: this is the only book of this author which I have read. He is clearly very talented and I do not intend to judge his overall literary qualities.
The story is Lovecraftian, with the detailed monsters Steven King writes. Like Lovecraft, we have a focus on the essential - no sex, no financial problems, just small-town cult horror, with lots of monsters and rituals and stuff. As is apparently en vogue these days, there's quite a lot of gratuitous gore, and of course a graphic torture scene. I personally don't like that as I prefer the "fear of the unknown" type of description to detailed monster gore. But to each their own, anyway the buildup is great.
But unlike a raving mad, degenerated Lovecraftian cult, the adversaries here seem to be quite sane, and that ruined it all for me. Relatively normal people actively trying to integrate the world into a demonic hellscape WHILE SEEING that they will all just be horribly killed in the process is beyond any suspension of disbelief.
There are a few useless characters (though some of them serve as monster fodder, I guess), and as said above, too much gore for my taste - but the overall plot is the main problem here. So, this could have been really great, but it turned out sort of ok. Read it if you like monsters.

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