Reddit mentions of The Land Across

Not sure if you're interested in self-published work, but you might dig my book Corruption. It's a horror/portal fantasy set in Eastern Europe with giant lice, sexual curses, vodka-guzzling wights, and a solar apocalypse. If that sounds up your alley, give it a shot! If not, then I'd say start with the classics - you really cannot go wrong with The Master and Margarita.

Edit: found a typo and thought of another one - Gene Wolfe's The Land Across was great, too, albeit not an easy read.