It was a freak accident. The man had suddenly stepped into the road, and the brakes had failed. Clare could only steer wildly, the car finally crashing into a tree and on to the kerb. Now her brother Rob was dead, silent in the passenger seat, slumped against the door. He died of massive head inj...
First published back in 1988, Campbell’s psychological horror ‘The Influence’ delves into the world of the spirit and the afterlife. He quickly sets the situation of the book down, with the introduction of the very close-knit Faraday family, then slowly builds the tension as the story unfolds. Ca...
A book that concerns a group of people who underwent a controlled experiment in prophetic dreaming. The experiment eventually went wrong and had to be called off due the ominous nature of what was beginning to take place on those involved. The story takes place eleven years later, when a dark for...
Continuing Samhain Horror's line of reprinted Ramsey Campbell's novels is "The Hungry Moon", an eerie tale about a small England village besieged first by rabid Christian Evangelicals and then the dark, pagan, moon-worshiping force they accidentally awaken. For the most part a smart story offeri...
Ramsey Campbell is an author seemingly as prolific as he is influential – I'm a big fan, but I've still got a number of his books to read. Fortunately my wife got me four of his books newly reissued as paperbacks from PS Publishing for Christmas. The first I've read is The Overnight.(Before we st...
Part social commentary, part dark comedy, Ramsey Campbell’s 2006 publication of Secret Story is mostly just a good old-fashioned page turning thriller about creepy adult children and their absentee fathers and oblivious and enabling mothers. Let’s get one thing straight; Dudley Smith is not Dexte...
A terribly slow driven, painfully plodding story that only takes a slightly interesting shape more than two thirds into the novel.If you like slowly paced and atmospheric reads then you may like this a lot better than I. I am more of a fast-paced reading kind of a guy. I don't need a hundred or...
I got this for a specific story ("The Trick"), which turned out not to be in it, but never mind.By halfway through the book I had Campbell's plot structure figured out.Angst-ridden protag sees/feels/experiences things that are a bit odd. Dismisses them out of hand. Spends 5 or more pages bleating...
Once upon a time there was a man who loved children. He loved them so much he tried to save them from their imperfect parents. Unfortunately, Hector Woollie didn't work for Child Protective Services . . . and the children he rescued, he murdered.Once upon a time, Leslie had a happy marriage, a ha...
I really enjoyed this story. I don't think it's one I'd ever read twice, but I did like it. I struggled through some characters' perspectives and found myself at constant internal conflict over my opinion of a few of them. I can't honestly say that I actually liked any of them completely. Persona...
A colleague's violent death and its apparent cause - a stolen copy of an old, never-released Karloff/Lugosi film - set film editor Sandy Allan on the trail of the film's origins and history. Mystery surrounds the movie, and as Sandy learns of the tragedies which haunted its production, she finds ...
"Come in, son." His lower lip droops as though it's miming openness, and Luke restrains his own from reflecting the expression. "Seeing you twice in a week now, are we? Not often enough," Maurice declares. "What are you having to drink?" "I'd better not, thanks. I was on the way to the house." "Y...
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The Mound in the Dark HEATHER was scanning into the computer a book that smelled of all its centuries when Randall answered the phone. She looked up to find him holding a finger to his faint smile as if hushing himself until she was ready for him. His bushy brows were raised high, and as their ga...
Who does she think she is?' 'Who are you calling one of those, Rory?' 'Who do you reckon, Hugh? Who do we both know?' 'Not Ellen.' 'Not her, no. She may be stupid in some ways, but nobody's got any reason to say she's a bitch that I know of. Cares too much for her own good about some things, like...
“No, you don’t. And I’m sure nobody wants to talk about it, either.” Into the silence Edmund said, “It’s presents time.” He took several books from his attache case. “I thought you should know what my books are like, since you’re going to be in one. Here you are, Clare. I ...
“Don’t tell me Frank Jasper sent you.” The beaky policeman gazes at me—Nosey from Beak-on-the-Dial, I might dub him. “Is there somewhere we can talk in private, Mr Wilde?” I’m anxious to learn what they want, however much my headache tugs my brows t...
In fact, I wish it weren’t true. Four years later, there are still nights I lie awake in bed, unable to escape the memories of the horror I encountered in Apartment B. I wish I could tell you just what it was. Maybe identifying and understanding whatever it was could help ...
Beneath a stovepipe hat his face is grey and blind, as good as eyeless. I assume the statue is meant to suggest why Joseph Williamson was known as the mole of Edge Hill, but the appearance of a creature that has seen too little daylight is excessively convincing for my taste, and the motley cloth...
Unless you'd rather we weren't there, of course."At once he felt selfish. It might be their only chance to see Stargrave, and he could always go for a solitary walk while his memories surfaced. "Let's see if there's room at the inn."The hotel receptionist sounded delighted to be asked and to rese...
If she didn't teach the course she had undertaken to teach she would be letting her students down. She'd found she couldn't use commercial movies, at least not yet; the violence in them seemed too cartoonish and stylised—too much of a betrayal of the reality she knew. Even films by Godard and Ber...
The big wheel appears to be laden with businessmen. Whenever a carriage is lifted above the hundred-yard races of traffic outside the hotel, the passengers seem to turn their grey twilit faces to me. Are they seeing something behind me, beyond the roof, and telling their mobiles about it? Car dri...
He took a cool breath of early morning air and stretched, wincing at the bruises he'd brought back with his report from the picketing. An unanswered phone rang in an office on Deansgate; a single car cruised past the department stores on Piccadilly, sending pigeons up from the roadway to wheel ab...
~ Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Fall of Night and V-Wars Disquieting and at times terrifying, SUSPENDED IN DUSK shows that horror can, and should, have substance.” ~ Kaaron Warren, Shirley Jackson Award winning author of Slights, Mistification, and Walking the Tree. &nb...
P. Lovecraft was a mythmaker, a visionary, a conjurer of dreams. As a self-professed outsider in his own century, Lovecraft invested his inner visions with such intensity that he was able to will an entire world into being: Great Cthulhu, the blind idiot god Azathoth, the sea-sunken realm of R'ly...
David." He was nervous of learning what Andrea meant—what was in the official envelope that she pushed towards him under the currency window. "Is that for me?" "It's for you to take, and I've left it open in case you have anything to say about it. I think it's appropriate for you to be involved."...
At least he was certain it hadn't been William. He was hoping it had nothing to do with the family until he managed to reconstruct the sound—Julian shouting in anger if not in disgust. What was the problem now? Should someone intervene? Ray blinked his eyes wide and was listening for any further ...
He clenched his teeth until his head throbbed, and overcame a wave of nausea as he succeeded in keeping both hands clamped on his swords. Before he could wield either of them, his adversary hurled him aside. Skewered on the weapon, Kane was swung away from Meredith with such force that it hurled ...
It is possible that no copy of The Revelations of Gla'aki still exists anywhere in the world. The only printed edition was published in nine volumes in 1865, by the Matterhorn Press of Highgate in London. A spurious "Liverpool edition" is unrelated to it, and consists of t...