Enjoyed this greatly for the FUN SANDBOXY KITCHEN SINK HORROR CRAWL that it is. Especially fond of how the neighborhood grid mechanic plays out compared to 4AD's dungeon crawling. But a couple minor things holding it back from a 5th star from me. --The first is that there are A LOT of incorrect page reference numbers, especially in the latter half of the book. Sometimes off by 3-4 pages. This adds up over time when so much of the gameplay involves flipping to the page it tells you to. --Tagging on to that, I'd guess that most of the places that refer you to the Haunted House table don't even list a page number to turn to.
That said, I do want to be very clear: BEYOND THE MULTIPLE PAGE REFERENCE ERRORS, THIS BOOK IS EXTREMELY WELL EDITED.
The second thing keeping it from a 5th star for me is a more ephemeral/balance vs. randomness issue. The Win condition for a game is closing 1 gate. For a campaign, 7 gates. It's a trivial amount of XP to get the Close Gate spell, but unless you have chosen a certain skill, it can be a hard ride with cold dice looking for one of the tomes that can unlock learning it. Also, Gates are pretty rare to spawn on their own. In one run, I had one gate spawn in 30+ spaces explored, and zero Libraries or books. If your Mission is about Gates, then you'll get 2 more auto spawn and you'll know when they are coming, so you can plan for it a little bit--But if that isn't your mission, you may never see a Gate with cold dice. And then, once you have the Spell, and there's a Gate, it's a tough roll to successfully cast the spell. To boil it down, I suspect it's going to get pretty repetitive, perhaps losing a bit of its charm when you're well into a second block of 30 spaces before you can finish a campaign. Some simple house rules to allow focused Clue use to help, or reducing the number of Gates needed will keep the game fresher longer. But perhaps even wiser would be to make a campaign more like a "Double Feature" with the campaign ending after successful completion of 2 consecutive Missions. But again, bottom line is that if you like 4AD or 4AGOO, and are cool with a Thematic B-Movie Blizzard (ie Aliens showing up one street away from a Park Full of werewolves next to some Haunted Houses or Evil Puppets), you're gonna LOVE exploring this book.

Quite good. It reminds me a lot of a roguelike moreso than a traditional pen and paper game. Yes, the events can get a tad repetitive over time, but there is a sort of "meta" going on underneath with specific items being able to unlock extra scenes. Fascinating and actually worth the $12 for a solo RPG player.