| Author | Message | ||
     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Rues are simple. The quote below is from a Ramsey story. The firs person to name the story correctly wins and selects the next quote. "The cat was hissing and snarling, but what had happened to its voice? Of course-it was distorted by echoes" | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Do we think Ramsey would get it...? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Are you trying to bait the master? You shouldn't do that because that would be masterb... No I 've not got the bad taste to finish that joke. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
It certainly reads like earlier Campbell, but it's far too generic to be placed in any tale without guessing. So I'll say, "The Depths". ??? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
"Down There", mayhap? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
Got it! "Midnight Hobo". | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Well done Hubert your turn | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Yes, of course - the echoes. Should have known that. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
"She woke to the touch of cold rubber on her feet; the hot water bottle felt dead." | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Loveman's Comeback ??? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
Nope. A tricky one, this, I admit.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
Baby ??? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
Nope, but getting (slightly) warmer. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.230 |
The Man In The Underpass ??? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
Not by a long shot Have to get some xeroxing done. Back in a jiffy. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
'Calling Card'? O how I wish I had my books to hand. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
Nope. Welcome back, Joel. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Dear Lord, it took me some cudgelling of the brain to place either of them. I do know Hubert's (and did know the first one), but I'm the audience and so can't help anyone. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
i tried googling Huberts but I can't find the answer that way Disgraceful these people who cheat | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Hubert's last one has a female protag... Hmm... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Eyes of Childhood ??? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Little Voice ??? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Trick ??? That's what I meant when I said 'Baby'. Doh. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.197 |
Interesting conclusion from this latest quote: RC doesn't write many short stories about females who aren't either elderly or children. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
"The Little Voice" it is. Congratulations. Over to you, Gary. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Huzzah! Okay, then: I don't have any RC books in the office, but I'll try quote from memory: "Finny humbugs swam..." | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
"Interesting conclusion from this latest quote: RC doesn't write many short stories about females who aren't either elderly or children." Well, there's Napier Court, The Proxy, Down There, Reply Guaranteed, The Cellars, Calling Card . . . There must be more. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
Good grief. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Well, Calling Card is an elderly woman. But I'll grant you the rest. The guys far outweigh them, tho. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Perhaps that is a bit vague. The answer's in my last post. I'll put up a better one later when I have access to my books. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I cannot tell a lie. I can only mumble that I thought Hubert's quote was from "Napier Court". | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.20 |
I thought people would fall for the water bottle bit - as you know there's a malignant specimen in "The Invocation" - but that story has a male protagonist. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I once typed out the whole of The Invocation for publication, so I knew it wasn't from there! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
OK, here's one of my favourite lines from RC: " 'Never mind telling him, show him. Dance all over him. Start on his face.' " | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
My favourite Campbell line: "The night dances beyond the grimy window" I don't know why, but this line always gets to me in a big, big way. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.124.44 |
"Bricks were heaped in what had been the garden: ice glistened in their pores" reminds me of my childhood home. I lived at number 13 - reduced now to one or two bricks opposite an old crook shepherd's stick street light at the edge of a wood. From my brother's bedroom I used to watch the snow swirl around that light. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.179.141 |
The amazing thing is, you can literally open any one of his books at random and have a 99% chance of finding a memorably chilling line within moments. I sometimes wonder if there isn't some form of Faustian pact involved here... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
If it's great lines you're after, how about this one from 'Just Behind You': "Once I’m past I wonder what I saw in there: one of the paintings displayed on the wall must have made especially free with its subject – I wouldn’t have called the dark blotchy peeling piebald mass a face apart from its grin, and that was too wide." It comes from one of the most quintessential passages in the whole of his work. Magnifico. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Since nobody's playing any more, the answer to the quote above was 'Becoming Visible'. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.138 |
I'm playing - I just couldn't figure out where that line came from! Give us another one, GF... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Okay, mate, try this cracker: "About six people who look stuck together and to him are walking him away as if they don't need to breathe when their heads start to sink." | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.138 |
Hmm... could it be The Overnight? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Nope. It's a short story... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
And it's not mud they're sinking in to... | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.138 |
I think it's come to me - 'The Same in Any Language'? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Cor-rect! Give me one, then.  | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.138 |
This should be a fairly easy one: "It was huge. More than anything else it looked like a tattered cutout silhouette of a woman's body." It's from a short story. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
The Pattern. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.198.138 |
Yep - over to you. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
"Surely the rest of the town was too busy to welcome him home, unless it was his fear that was bringing the movement he could hear in the street." | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.187 |
"It was huge. More than anything else it looked like a tattered cutout silhouette of a woman's body." Easy! If I'd seen this earlier . . .  | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.187 |
"The night dances beyond the grimy window" Needing Ghosts. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
"Wilkins smiled thinly as the slug was ejaculated and ripped his chest open, leaving an exit-wound the size of a tennis ball in his back." | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.233.187 |
Could be from the script of SLITHER | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Hutson.... gcw |