A Quokka Dreeds its Weird

I'm not sure what I would make of the story now, because I react differently to horribly grim fiction than I did fifteen years ago. But man, it's like nothing else I've read, in terms of the games it plays with history and genre. Right from the first page -- not the first page of the story proper; I mean the first first page, where it tells you that what you're reading is a facsimile of a surviving copy of Pierce Ratcliff's book whose entire print run was pulped before release -- you really have to wonder what the hell you're getting into.