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     Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.97.61 |
I posted my Halloween Article for this year over at The Vintage Horror site. This one is my top ten list of my favorite short stories by Ramsey Campbell. This list will probably change with the more stories by Ramsey I get my hands on, but for now these are my favorites. If you are interested you can check it out by following the link below: http://www.vintagehorror.com/node/174http://www.vintagehorror.com/node/174 | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Matt - fantastic choices, pal. But if I had to choose one story, if I absolutely had to, it would be 'Again.' But there are so many of Ramsey's stories that would belong at the top of any list, it's really hard picking out favourites. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Matt - is this your site? If so, it's really tasty. Love the films available, especially 'The Eyes of London.' | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I meant The Dark Eyes of London.  | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
Really pleased to see you punt for 'The Ferries' too, Matt. On the book club section of this board I opted for it too but not everyone agreed it was one of Ramsey's best works. For me it's a genuine awe inspirer. I think Ramsey's best collection is Waking Nightmares. For me, in that book, perhaps Ramsey's most perfect story is 'The Guide'. Though I do believe it's most perfect in the form of the slightly abridged audiobook version, in/on Twilight Tales From Merseyside. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.160.204 |
Excellent choices, Matt! If the list could be extended, I would also include 'Apples', 'Feeling Remains', 'The Invocation', 'Mackintosh Willy', 'The Interloper', 'Again', 'The Fit', 'The Franklyn Paragraphs', 'The Chimney', The Same in Any Language', 'Calling Card', 'The Companion' .... and others too numerous to mention. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.97.61 |
Frank - It isn't my site but I write all the articles on vintage writer's (I've done ones on M.R. James, William Hope Hodgson, Fritz Leiber, Joseph Payne Brennan, and a bunch more). The guy who owns the site also does podcast's of old time radio program's, several of which are horror tales. Mark - Glad I'm not alone for my love the story "Ferries". I also love "The Guide" which narrowly missed my list. I have a review written up for it for a future article. Huw - Ypu have a great list there as well. I reviewed "Calling Card" for my first annual Christmas Horror stories list and have "The Chimney" ready to include for this years list. I think you'll see a lot of the ones you've listed in future article's. Ramsey is my absolute favorite writer, so there will certainly be more. Thanks everyone for checking it out. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
Some good choices, but I'd definitely include a few others: The Same In Any Language, Just Behind You, Skeleton Woods, Welcomeland . . . Goddamn it, that list to choose from is annoyingly great.  | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
'Meeting The Author' - brilliant tale. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.170.240 |
Is there still anywhere online a comprehensive bibliography, listing all of the tales? | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
www.isfdb.org/ then search the Database | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
Hey, thanks, Matt! I've got some you haven't even read yet... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Favourite Ramsey Campbell stories that sprang out at me while going down that list: 'The Cellars', 'Cold Print', 'Napier Court', 'The Interloper', 'Dolls', 'Lilith's', 'The Chimney', 'The Seductress', 'In The Bag', 'Down There', 'Mackintosh Willy', 'The Trick', 'The Ferries', 'Eye Of Childhood', 'The Other Side', 'In The Trees', 'Merry May', 'It Helps If You Sing', 'The Old School', 'Meeting The Author' - that would be an instinctive Top 20 of those I've read, i.e. nothing later than 'Waking Nightmares'. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.97.61 |
"Hey, thanks, Matt! I've got some you haven't even read yet..." Thank you for all those wonderful tales. Just reading everyone's list here shows me there are several I don't have but am dieing to find. Reading your work is what inspired me to try my own hand at writing. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.68.251 |
'The Old School', yes! Most of the tales in Scared Stiff. Ramsey, I'm still waiting for the railway station tale . . . | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.97.61 |
"Some good choices, but I'd definitely include a few others: The Same In Any Language, Just Behind You, Skeleton Woods, Welcomeland . . ." I have never come across any of these. Are they still avialable in a collection? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
What about No Strings and The Long Way? - two of my absolute favourites. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'Scared Stiff' is my single favourite collection of Ramsey's. There's something extra disturbing about every single story in there. But the overall best short work he ever wrote is the novella 'Needing Ghosts' - a nightmarish tour-de-force imo. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
"Ramsey, I'm still waiting for the railway station tale . . ." You're not alone, Gary, but here it will be: http://kealanpatrick.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/announcing-al-sarrantonios-portent s/ | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.68.251 |
Ah-ha! That's an ingenious tale. I loved it. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.68.251 |
Matt, check out the PS Publishing site for Ramsey's collection Just Behind You (for the titular tale and Skeleton Woods). The other two tales are in Ghosts and Grisly Things. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.68.251 |
I'll tell ya another classic tale which should be mentioned more often: Dragged Down. But - what am I thinking? - arguably Ramsey's finest tale is . . . 'Peep'. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.132.33 |
'But - what am I thinking? - arguably Ramsey's finest tale is . . . 'Peep'.' It is my favourite. I think it was in Toronto I first heard it read aloud... sent shivers down my spine. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
Ghost and Grisly Things is probably my second favourite collection, with Told by the Dead at three... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.68.251 |
Nothing's better (worse?) than Ramsey growing hysterical at the end of 'Peep', glaring at you, and saying, "Peep! Peep!" | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
SCARED STIFF is probably my favourite collection, but the short story which comes to mind most often is THE MAN IN THE UNDERPASS. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.153.165.30 |
I'm with Frank. 'Again' still has me gaping in shock at the final page. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
Not to mention the last sentence. One of his finest tales, indeed. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
"Peep" is a superb story - gave me nightmares in my hotel room in Derby when Ramsey read it at AltFiction!  I think my all-time favourite Ramsey short would be "Mackintosh Willy", but it's so hard to choose. No-one's mentioned "End of a Summer's Day" yet, have they? Er .. hope I've got the name right - I'm doing this without checking and my brain's a bit addled at the moment. Have to agree that if we include the novella "Needing Ghosts" then that's Ramsey's best work ever IMO.  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.180.124.231 |
I always go back to "Run Through" and "Call First" as being the stories that stick in my mind most, but they're pretty much all good. Oh, and "Seeing The World" which Ramsey read at an FCon in the early/mid 'eighties, the first time I'd heard him read. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.220.4 |
For me it's The Chimney. I cannot begin to describe how much I love that story. | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 79.79.184.34 |
For me it is The Hands, which I have read...well, I can't count how many times. The themes of that tale still ring disturbingly close to home for me. Does anyone know of any other horror stories inspired by religious guilt and fear? My other favourite is The Pattern, still one of the most frightening stories I've ever read. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.185.216 |
So difficult... here goes... Napier Court The Second Staircase Reply Guaranteed The Brood The Chimney Just Waiting The Other Side No Story In It Dragged Down Skeleton Woods | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
"Chimney" prbably should have been on my list. I held it out mostly because I plan on using it for my upcoming Christmas Ghost Stories list. Planing on A.M. Burrage's "Smee" on that one as well. Hey Joel, glad to see "Just Waiting" on your list too. I absolutely love that story. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Joel - I think I recall the landlord saying he felt dissatisfied with 'The Brood' because it was too pulpy in style. It's been years since I've read it, so I can't for the life of me say if I agree or not. I just remember it also being another brilliant example of Ramsey's mastery of the form. I'm most enamoured with the fact that I could pick a story from any of his collections, the most recent to The Inhabitant of the Lake, as worthy contenders. In the genre Ramsey, Aickman and Dennis Etchinson surely hold some of the most revered short stories written. Especially by writers as well as fans and readers. Quite some accomplishment. I would include M.R. James on the list, but as much as his stories are magnificently frightening, superbly executed, I don't find the same kind of 'cerebral', underlying seriousness present. An old argument, I know. I'm sure many would disagree with that, but that's my own personal view of things. And that's not to denigrate those writers of today. BUT, I wouldn't put Lovecraft on the list, which I'm sure will cause a few raised eyebrows. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I keep coming back to Lovecraft, and of all the horror books in my collection, his are the ones I prize most. The only author I've bought more than a few collections by, for one or two stories I didn't have. Of living horror authors Ramsey is easily my fav but of all-time it will probably always be HPL. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I honestly find Ramsey's 'Lovecraftian' stories more satisfying. I know that sounds bizarre, and treasonable, but I think the archetype was thoroughly reworked by Ramsey. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I have a real love/hate relationship with Lovecraft's work. I don't think I'll ever resolve the issue, either. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I'm the same, Zed. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I only need a copy of 'The Ancient Track : The Complete Poetical Works Of H.P. Lovecraft' and I'll have everything he ever wrote, or collaborated on - to the best of my knowledge. Then I intend to start a complete chronological re-read, right from 'The Little Glass Bottle' (1897), up to 'The Night Ocean'(1936), followed by all those posthumous "collaborations" with August Derleth, etc... and I can't bloody wait! That's how much devotion Lovecraft's fiction inspires in me. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
It inspired enough devotion in me to actually go to Providence and environs to see where he lived and worked, and do some research of my own in Brown University's John Hay Library. I cannot begin to describe what I felt when I leafed through Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft's comonplace book, or read many of the then uncollected letters. Meeting and befriending S.T. Joshi, Dave Schulz, Marc Michaud, Ken Faig and so many other Lovecraftians proved a turning point as well. I can recommend the trip to Providence: the stories positively gain in strength, for there is definitely something in the air there. It's hard to describe, but one cannot escape an almost tangible sense of something waiting. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I envy you that experience so much, Hubert. I consider H.P. Lovecraft to be the ultimate culmination of the golden era of supernatural fiction, that began properly with Edgar Allan Poe. All the authors who've come since have been honing, reinterpreting, reinventing, and mixing with other genres, the archetypes that were perfected during that incredible period. Lovecraft is the pivot around whom all other weird fiction authors turn imo. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
In our opinion, too. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
So is Ramsey Campbell the culmination of all that reverent inspiration? I think so... But we'd need to be able to jump forward a hundred years or so to properly judge - that's if literature, the writing and the reading of it, still exists by then. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
There's quite a few instances where our Landlord transcends the genre; stuff like The Face That Must Die and Needing Ghosts, for example, is too good to be stamped 'horror'. I'd like the mainstream literary world to take notice of some, if not all of his work. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I agree, Hubert, particularly with regard to his 90s novels, that I've read so far. They are as much literate social commentary/satire as they are horror fiction imo. I would say his specifically Lovecraftian stories, though, are the culmination of all the classically structured supernatural fiction of the modern era. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
You mean the stories in The Inhabitant of the Lake? As much as I admire the title story, no - he hadn't found his own voice yet. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
No, no, no... I mean his later supernatural stories. He started, as an enthusiastic teenager, trying to slavishly imitate Lovecraft - and who can blame him - but with stories like 'The Cellars' & 'Cold Print' found the first intimations of his own voice and cotinued to grow, by leaps and bounds, from there. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
I just read "The Old School" for the first time last night. That's a great one as well. I should start reading stories for next month's article but once I start reading Ramsey's it gets so addicting it's difficult to stop. I've noticed teacher's are often the main character in several stories ("In the Bag", "The Old School", "The Other Side", the father in "Just Waiting"). | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.27.39.177 |
And the guy in Just Behind You. Ramsey's wife was a teacher, so I guess he was able to observe the profession, uh, sideways. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
I wonder how many of us agree with Ramsey about Cold Print, that it was this story which he felt showed he'd found his 'voice.' Who am I to dare say otherwise, but I personally think he'd achieved it before reaching this story. But for me Cold Print was one of the first truly inspiring stories in the genre. I hadn't really read anything which had had this impact on me up till them. It revealed to me, also, that the genre was not what I had expected, that it could be something way beyond my first expectations. Mind you I was a kid, but I still think the sentiment stands. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
' "Chimney" prbably should have been on my list. I held it out mostly because I plan on using it for my upcoming Christmas Ghost Stories list. Planing on A.M. Burrage's "Smee" on that one as well.' Take a look at Robert Shearman's "Granny's Grinning", Matt! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Matt - I would also recommend (if you haven't done so already) Karl Edward Wagner's brilliant 'Sticks.' A fantastic Lovecrafian inspired tale, with Mr Wagner at his finest. Such a loss that he died so young. And also try the wonderfully emotional, yet wickedly dry tale that is The Autopsy by Michael Shea. Both stories should belong to any Christmas list for fireside reading. Micahel Shea's later work is especially a must read in my humble opinion. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I quite enjoyed 'Christmas Eve In The Blue Chamber' (1891) by Jerome K. Jerome, as a more wickedly humorous take on the Christmas ghost story. It features a resolutely unreconstructed Scrooge-like character, who takes his morbid dislike of the festive spirit to murderous lengths. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Steve - hey mate, which would you choose as the most effective and Dickensian of all the 'A Christmas Carol' adaptations...the Muppet One ...but seriously...? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Hate to be predictable, but as Dickens' masterpiece is the definitive Christmas ghost story, there's also only one definitive screen adaptation for me - the Alastair Sim version, from 1951, directed by Brian D. Hurst. Why it isn't shown on the telly more often these days is beyond me! | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
with stories like 'The Cellars' & 'Cold Print' found the first intimations of his own voice You forget the very curious volume called Demons by Daylight. I remember when I first picked it up, expecting more Inhabitant fare. It was a bit of a shock, for it seemed to have been written by an different writer altogether. The stories in The Height of the Scream are more in the vein of what came later -Dark Companions, Dark Feasts . . . | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Hubert - definitely agreed. Though I read DBD first. Steve - without a doubt, mate. Alastair Sim was born to play the part. He was a great actor, from a great time for British movies. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
"Take a look at Robert Shearman's "Granny's Grinning", Matt!" "Matt - I would also recommend (if you haven't done so already) Karl Edward Wagner's brilliant 'Sticks.' A fantastic Lovecrafian inspired tale, with Mr Wagner at his finest. Such a loss that he died so young. And also try the wonderfully emotional, yet wickedly dry tale that is The Autopsy by Michael Shea. Both stories should belong to any Christmas list for fireside reading." "I quite enjoyed 'Christmas Eve In The Blue Chamber' (1891) by Jerome K. Jerome" Thanks for the suggestions everone. I will definitely attempt to hunt each one down. I think I may already have "Sticks" in one of my various anthologies. The others, I'll have to do a little searching for. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
After taking a look, I do have "Sticks" as well as "The Autopsy", both in The Dark Descent anthology. Now I just need to seek out "Granny's Grinning" and "Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber" | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Matt - that's where I also read them, Dark Descent. Do you have the two volumes in one? Unfortunately, I only have the one volume, though not to be sniffed at | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
My volume is pretty thick. It doesn't say if it's two volumes or not. It's seperated into 3 parts: Part 1.The Color of Evil, Part 2. Medusa in the Shield, and Part 3. A Fabulous Formless Darkness. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
"...with stories like 'The Cellars' & 'Cold Print' found the first intimations of his own voice..." "You forget the very curious volume called Demons by Daylight. I remember when I first picked it up, expecting more Inhabitant fare." Well, to be precise, "The Cellars" was written in 1965, "The Stocking" in 1966, "Cold Print" from late 1966 into early 1967, and all the other Demons tales in 1967-68, apart from "The Lost" (1969). | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
I stand corrected. Thanks, Ramsey. Were you aware at the time of the very different styles between, say, "The Cellars" and "Concussion"? In my view "The Cellars" is in the class of what came later, i.e. the stories in Dark Companions or Dark Feasts, while "Concussion" and most of the tales in Demons stand very much apart from the rest of your oeuvre. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
To be honest, Hubert, I don't think I was! | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
Well, I have ordered a copy of the anthology, THE DEAD WALK (As well as Ramsey's collection Ghost and Grisly Things and the complete THRILLER tv series), which contains "Granny's Grinning" yesterday. I also found "Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber" online for free, so now I should be able to include all those suggested stories here in my article this December. Thanks for the suggestions. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.79.168.190 |
Ramsey, do you have any plans to release a new collection of your short stories soon? BTW, I also own FINE FRIGHTS and was glad to see "Thurnley Abbey" included. I love that one. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
Not for a couple of years, I should think, Matt. Another non-fiction collection is a possibility too. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
However, Matt, PS Publishing will soon release the definitive collection of Ramsey's early work. (Ramsey, you really need a PR man. ) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.77.198 |
Matt, have you also seen this fascinating little collection? http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/inconsequential -tales-by-ramsey-campbell | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
The Peter Straub quote at the end is wonderful. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.100.199 |
"Matt, have you also seen this fascinating little collection? http://www.hippocampuspress.com/mythos-and-other-authors/fiction/inconsequential -tales-by-ramsey-campbell" That does look very good. I have another item for my birthday and Christmas list now. I'm hoping the US edition of Theiving Fear comes out soon too. | ||
| Matt_cowan (Matt_cowan) Username: Matt_cowan Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.249.100.199 |
I got a copy of GHOSTS AND GRISLEY THINGS in the mail on Saturday! It only has one story in it I've already read, so I'm pretty excited. The only bad thing is, my wife is probably going to hide it from till my birthday about a month from now. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.194.128 |
It's Grisly, and not Grisley, my friend. Mind you, that's not as bad as how I once spelt it: Ghosts and Gristly Things, I happily wrote. Bad cuts of meat are frightening, however. | ||
| C_j_fenwick (C_j_fenwick) Username: C_j_fenwick Registered: 06-2011 Posted From: 2.28.177.14 |
As everyone so rightly says there are just too many excellent tales to choose from, but at a push I would most likely nominate 'The Trick', 'The Fit', 'The Guide', 'Above The World', 'The Hands' and especially 'The Pattern'( this one reminded me greatly of Nigel Kneale's 'The Road', if only for the magnificent ending) |