Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

This review is only going to be a stream of me gushing about how much I loved this book for a couple of paragraphs.
Townsend brought together some of my favorite world building elements, horror themes treated as par for the course and no big deal (think a WTNV kind of approach), a how are you still alive main characters who isn't even all that sure he wants to be there (something that will speak to any millennial's soul) and a grimy setting. There's a great sense of humor that ties it all together in an amazing and non-stop moving package.
Jack is amazing and he's probably my second favorite character of all times at this point (having lodged himself between Tommy Wildclown from The Apocalypse Series by G. Wells Taylor and John Taylor from The Nightside Series by Simon R. Green, I have a type and, apparently, they don't always have to be private investigators they can also be gas station attendants).
Now I'm going to try to pace myself and wait maybe a week before I start volume 2, wish me luck!

Edited to add (November 2, 2023), it's been a little over a year since I initally read this book and I still find myself making references to it fairly regularly and I've read literally hundreds of books since, it was just that good.