House of the Worm by Gary Meyers

Something happens with the pacing of Gary Meyers house of the worm where its like hypnotic. I'm having trouble finishing it even though its short, but I wouldn't say its bad ... Its sort of like The Gods of Pegana or The White People , but that weird pace is turned up more than I've ever seen to where, its sort of hard to comprehend ? " For there are many tales of that old man and his queer ways, for the most part having little truth to them. " ... " They say he was not old when he first looked on the five pillars on the round hill overlooking Vornai in the plain of Kaar. He had held more contempt for the legends than fear, and had gone there alone to scoff at the daemons said to dwell within the ring. He went in the daylight, and would have returned long before dusk, for even his rash skepticism would not let him dare this thing by night . But the spell of the place caught him or a morbid fascination of the way the monoliths' shadows distorted all they fell across and how these shadows were not cast by sun or moon, but red Betelgeuse in the starry sky. Or perhaps he guessed the meaning of certain cryptic signs on the stones, or only stood too long in their presence. He did not return at dusk. " It doesn't change, that's not exposition. The eponymous story, " House of the worm" is 14 pages, mostly like that.