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     Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
This is weird in the extreme. Can anyone solve the enigma? Is it from an alternate universe? http://wwww.bookcrossing.com/fullsizecover/6905801 | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Well, now I see it's an expanded edition. All right, I'll go back to sleep... | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.62 |
That's interesting, to say the least! My copy of Frights does not have stories by any of the authors listed on that rather garish cover. In fact, that reminds me somewhat of the Ballantine Lovecraft covers (Tales From the Cthulhu Mythos, etc.) from the seventies. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.196.184 |
I wonder which Klein story was added. "Children of the Kingdom' appeared in McCauley's excellent Dark Forces, of course (my first exposure to Klein, and to RC, for that matter). | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.72.14.113 |
Just read a cracking short horror story called 'Monsieur Seeks A Wife' (1935) by Margaret Irwin. It seems to fall exactly half-way between the old gothic ghost stories of the likes of J. Sheridan Le Fanu, M.R. James, etc. and the new horror literature of the time - specifically H.P. Lovecraft. A wonderful read that has gone straight into my Top 20 ha ha. On another note the man himself just creeped me out no end (again) with Chapter 14 of 'Obsession'. The book is striking up resonances with 'It' by Stephen King in my mind and making that mighty tome look like a Dick & Dora book by comparison! It's the personal psychological detail that matters here rather than the physical - though Ramsey details his character's lives (as I said before) like characters from a gritty kitchen sink drama of the 50s/60s. Yes, horror can be literature and this is a prime example in my humble opinion... |