Lovecraft only quite different.

Mostly more conceptual than body-horror, definitely weird and unsettling, certainly not cliched.

A friend pointed out, based on the stories in another Ligotti collection but also true of this one, that while Lovecraft's narrators are usually a normal human reporting on their contact with the weird and uncanny and mind-bending, Ligotti's narrators are more likely to be part of the weird and uncanny and mind-bending themselves, even if for the first few sentences we don't realize it.

And that's an important difference.

Definitely worth reading; what more can be said?