Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991
by Ramsey Campbell
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Read in October, 2008
I read 2 more stories from Ramsey Campbell's Alone With the Horrors, and I didn't like either of them. I just don't like Campbell's prose. I cannot make sense of the action. It's like a poorly edited film with missing transitions and improperly framed action rendering the movement and sense of space totally broken. I can never tell where characters are in the scene or in relation to each other, and I constantly have to reread things over and over just to get a clear picture of what is happen...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
horror fans, especially Lovecraft
Some seriously scary short stories in here, folks. Not the kind of thing you want to be reading right before bed.
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Read in February, 2008
Ugh...I'm giving up on this book. I'm a big fan of horror fiction and this was a recommendation on Stephen King's list, but I can NOT get through this short story collection. Campbell is British and I've read his stuff before, but I'm having such a difficult time with the idioms and colloquialisms he uses. This collection spans a good part of his carrer (starting when he was fifteen). I'm definitely not a fan of his earlier stuff (very Lovecraftian in tone) and the later material is best rea...more
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Read in November, 2007
I recently found this at a bargain price and couldn't pass it up. When I was a young adult, I read a lot of horror fiction (I hate to even use this term, because much of what counts as horror fiction is complete garbage), and I thought it would be fun to refresh my memory of some of these stories.
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recommends it for:
horror fans
This book was very dissapointing. I had to pull through it at times and almost gave up on it. The horror is subtle....not my kind of thing!
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These stories are all pretty good and spooky. And thank god none of that mafia nonsense he's been into lately.
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