Highly recommended, although quite different to the New Crobuzon novels. It's pretty much all horror, much more overtly so than The Scar or Iron Council, and generally much more effectively so than Perdido St Station. They're not all completely successful, but there are several definite winners.
Several show the same slightly manic inventiveness that gave rise to the Remade and the possibility magics of The Scar -- the VF of "Reports of Certain Events in London" are delightful (I'm avoiding spoilage here, and not explaining that acronym; the story is in a classic form, a collection of letters and fragmentary notes that, pieced together, slowly reveal the awful truth, and it would be a crime to shortcut that process), and "Familiar" is a tiny glimpse into a world with enormous possibilities for developement.
All in all, highly recommended if you have a taste for this "New Weird" stuff everybody is talking about, or if you like horror in general and aren't afraid of something a bit different.
Several show the same slightly manic inventiveness that gave rise to the Remade and the possibility magics of The Scar -- the VF of "Reports of Certain Events in London" are delightful (I'm avoiding spoilage here, and not explaining that acronym; the story is in a classic form, a collection of letters and fragmentary notes that, pieced together, slowly reveal the awful truth, and it would be a crime to shortcut that process), and "Familiar" is a tiny glimpse into a world with enormous possibilities for developement.
All in all, highly recommended if you have a taste for this "New Weird" stuff everybody is talking about, or if you like horror in general and aren't afraid of something a bit different.