time portal prospect

This story seemed to be like a transport into a different stsate of being. In Nevsky prospects inthe beginning it seemed to me to be a pretty nice and quaint place to live but the more i read the more i felt as if i was in the twighlight zone. when people seemed to become residents of the propspects their lives as a who;e seemed to completely morph into strange and disturbing things that seemed so far from what they were to begin with.