While I enjoyed the humor a lot (it has this JOHN DIES AT THE END vibe), and the writing was much better than I expected, it felt a little too long for what it offered. It is the first one in a series, so there is more story to come, but once the gag has run its course, it’s probably better to put it to bed. The dialogue is mostly good, thanks in part to the humorous approach, and while character development only really occurs with our MC, it's done well and the whole story is focused on him, not the other players, who mostly have small parts to play here and there.

Going in I was expecting more of a strange and creepy read. It turned out to be more of a humorous story that got downright silly and unbelievable at times. What can I say? This book really surprised me. I liked the title and read the synopsis and thought “what the hell, I’ll give it a shot”. Anyway, the reason a went into this whole unwanted explanation, is to make you understand that this book takes place, almost entirely, in OFF. Things may seem normal at the gas station, but there is just a little something, well, off. This book is not to be taken seriously or… I guess you could and just not have a good time, up to you. Honestly, it wasn’t quite a book I’ve read. It was several days I’ve lived through on this nowhere gas station.

The year is 2018 and "Tales from the Gas Station" are published. There aren't many people who know about this book, but the vibe is similar. Small town. Random gas station. A protagonist who is either too stupid or too smart for paranormal shit that happens around. There is dark god, a group of radioactive racoons, excellent humor and great writing.

So, the best advice I can give you, is to break this one up into two or three parts. Read something in between, just to keep the humor fresh.It’s a well-build story, all those events connected and logical (crazy, yeah). Every part of the story isn’t forgotten and not for nothing. I worried, The Tales could be alike Welcome to Night Vale, where it seems, the book is a set of random crazy events. But The Tales are logical in their craziness and I had a great time with it. I determinate to read his next books but want to wait a cooler season – I think it’s more proper vibes for reading The Tales. OFF is where your mind goes when you fully believe, even for a fraction of a second, something that goes against your personal logic, reason and life experience. In other words, to believe in something you think is impossible. Most of the events and strange occupancies didn't seem to fit together very well. Many things were also not properly explained or tied in which left me feeling more confused than anything else when finishing the book. Another thing you should remember is that you can’t knowingly go there. No matter what you do, how drastic, it is not possible.

The year is 2012 and the first episode of "Welcome to the Night Vale" airs. People start to gather around this strange phenomena and small town vibes. This was exactly what I expected from a Tales from the Gas Station story, was definitely not disappointed. Lots of unexpected twists that you wouldn't guess from the regular stories on Reddit. Finding out the missing pieces of the free stories (the Halloween incident, whatever happend to certain characters, deeper character motivations) just tied things together. Mrcreepypasta as narrator of the Audible version did great, as always. I can't wait for Volume 2. This was...fine. Perfectly fine. Imagine "Welcome to Night Vale" but focusing entirely on the bleak and the absurd. The protagonist is dying from a neurological condition that causes permanent insomnia and we see the strange things he witnesses working the nightshift at a run-down petrol station in the rural American South. How much is real? How much is delusion or hallucination? We have only his word to go on.I'm not sure exactly what kind of book I just read with this one. What I can say for sure is that the author is definitely a creative guy. What keeps this one from failing is the humor and the MC, who stumbles through the story without ever actually DOING very much. Normally, this would pull me out of the story a bit, but here, it works very well, leading to many laugh out loud moments throughout. Occasionally, the humor falls flat, but it's so rare--and even when it does happen, it's always immediately followed by a nugget of gold--it doesn't detract from the overall experience. With an unreliable narrator, cosmic horror and the perfect adhd induced plot, I think the term suspending disbelief might be be too shallow of a phrase, maybe catapult or torpedo sane rational thought out the window instead? Working at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless customers. The enormous eldritch horror living deep below the building…