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     Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.2.114.230 |
I have blogged about Ramsey: http://jonoliverwriter.blogspot.co.uk/ | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 213.106.77.123 |
Hurrah!  | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Really fine blogs here, Jonathan. All of them on your first page, at least, which I read.  I too trace my love of horror lit back to Ramsey. And I too was reading lots of Ramsey's work in college, sitting in the university library not studying this or that, but rather with a copy of The Parasite or The Nameless open in my cubicle.... And I've been curious too about The Count of Eleven, I managed to find a fine paperback copy not too long ago, but no one ever seems to mention that tome here. Now I want to go read it! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.128.229 |
Ramsey will always make me feel like a fanboy. That's the sincerest form of flattery I know, even more than the proverbial imitation (which I've also done). I think it's the subconscious thought of standing beside the person who's got so deeply under your skin. It's a weird existential thing, an authenticity in this world of celebrity bullshit and manufactured eminence. Ramsey geniunely deserves such reverence. He's still crap at driving, though. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.68 |
An excellent blog post, Jonathan. I'm with you and Gary: I'll never lose my fanboy feelings around Ramsey. He's always been the model I look up to. His prose is peerless, his work ethic enviable, and his dedication to the oft-maligned genre of Horror is unwavering. These are all things I've taken to heart and tried to do in my own way. There is a recent YouTube clip of S.T. Joshi chatting with W.H. Pugmire, in which S.T. proclaims Ramsey Campbell to be not only the greatest Horror writer of his era, but in fact the greatest of all time. Weighing just how much Ramsey has done with Horror fiction and for Horror fiction, I agree with S.T.'s assessment 100%. No other writer has consistently delivered so many top-tier works of Horror. Future generations of readers and writers will unquestionably marvel at his legacy. How fortunate we all are to know the man himself! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.27.31 |
May Tubby smile upon you all. Thanks, folks! | ||
| Pete_a (Pete_a) Username: Pete_a Registered: 07-2011 Posted From: 108.231.165.81 |
"His prose is peerless, his work ethic enviable, and his dedication to the oft-maligned genre of horror unwavering." Hear, hear! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.90.10 |
By his own admission, Ramsey is, in comparison to some contemporaries, a slow writer, but I was looking at his output the other day on my Special Ramsey Campbell Bookshelf (don't tell me you don't have one) and was astonished by how much material there was. And hardly any is "just OK" (like, say, King's stuff). His work ethic - writing every day - is tortoise-like in a world of dashing hares. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.90.10 |
Also, he's the only author I've read everything by. (King comes a close second, though have yet to read Dark Tower - retirement task). |