With Shea being very influenced by Jack Vance and Fritz Leiber, Nifft the Lean is a great fantasy anthology that feels grounded and real, while still retaining highly creative fantastical elements that form a memorable visual package in the mind. Shea is much more heavy on horror and the grotesque than Vance and Leiber, drawing from Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel's iconically strange and horrifying visions of Hell, making for some truly mesmerizing passages and stories. My only gripe with the collection is that the final story (The Goddess in Glass) is perhaps the least engaging of the 4.