The first time I heard about this book was because of True Detective and references to "An inhabitant of Carcosa". The stories are themselves self contained though thematically they are all easily categorized as weird fiction. Cynicism is yet another common motif across the stories. 
 These short stories require another re-read to tread through chaos - sometimes unintentional given the topic at hand and sometimes completely intentional so as to screw with the mind of readers by giving them definitive set of parameters to work with in the beginning and change the rules of the game by mid. 
 The stories are quirky, witty and apathetic to human pathos.