| Author | Message | ||
     Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.168.228.85 |
Picked this up recently - was top of my 'must have list' for a long time.  | ||
| Lincoln_brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 58.168.228.85 |
Sorry about the BIG pic! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
That handshake must be like a wet fish. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Are you planning a sequal to this superb book, Ramsey? | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
Don't think so! It was largely a product of its time and in particular of Michel Parry's requirements (or at least the ones I thought he had). The Tor edition is three tales longer and has an expanded afterword. | ||
| Griff (Griff) Username: Griff Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.100 |
*Passes out* | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.247 |
That's a beautifully produced book - very heavy too, for such a slim volume. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Someone should comission an anthology about living dummies and anthropomorphic devices similar to that. Call it SIMULACRUM. "What is it that frightens us about ventriloquist dummies? Come with us as we delve into...the SIMULACRUM!" I bet we all have our favourites. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.65.204 |
'The Glass Eye' by John Keir Cross is a good one. Like most Cross stories it overplays its hand – he can't resist saying to the reader 'NOW do you get it?' – but his depressive combination of surface realism and psychological surrealism makes him almost a Scottish counterpart to Ligotti. His story 'The Other Passenger' is one of the most fucked up stories (in a good way) I can think of. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Of course SCARED STIFF has two classics of the subgenre. That I can think of. I wonder how far you could stretch the term SIMULACRUM? Zombies? A dead body? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I would say the simulacrum or effigy comprises a great chunk of Campbell's work. Directly and stylistically.* *In that everything looks like something it is not. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
I think I found where all Campbell's bogeymen go to retire. http://www.thornhill-gala.co.uk/s-crows.htm | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Isn't this the one from MIDNIGHT HOBO? http://www.thornhill-gala.co.uk/2007%20crows/bone_hunt.jpg | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
There's something so wrong about this... http://www.geckoandfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/scarecrow_stripper.jpg | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/109/281034107_17b36442bf.jpg?v=0 So wrong... | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.244.67 |
Is that Lovejoy? http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~rain/Trips/Iceland06/Melrak/Kopasker_scarecrow_sm. jpg |