I can see why Stephen King likes this so much; he found someone who hates editors as much as he does. 
 This story is much better appreciated if you understand and accept that it was written as a serial. Also, if you accept this was written in Victorian times so you have to let your dirty mind fill in all the dirty bits. I think there's a lot of dirty parts, although I can't understand how seeing a girl have sex with a satyr would break a pubescent boy's mind so effectively that he became an invalid for the remainder of his life.