To fully appreciate this book's horror value, you should know that it was published posthumously.
This is a pretty good book, though when you read it, it is obviously one major story and two minor ones all tied together later on. As with his previous book Steam, the book is likely best appreciated if you were gay and in San Francisco during the 1980s.
A deaf gay guy gets an eye operation which enables him to see and hear ghosts.
A garage mechanic and his pusher get killed as part of a set up between their boyfriends.
What would you do for a cure for AIDS? What about when you have to give up the power you have, the prettiness you embody, to become a poster boy for horror from a disease that tortures before it kills? Now how far would you go to get the cure? The price might be quite high!
A short story about someone who gets lighter and lighter, with an unforeseen outcome.