Nazareth Hill
by Ramsey CampbellSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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Read in September, 2008
Will someone tell me what I’m missing about Ramsey Campbell? I’m being serious here. I haven’t been able to finish one of his novels yet. I tried to read his newest, “Grin in the Dark,” which features an evil clown that unleashes a nameless evil on the world. Stephen King did the same thing a thousand times better when he wrote “It,” and at the time he was coked out of his mind.
Anyway…Nazareth Hill came highly recommended by a fellow librarian who also happens to be a horror ...more
Anyway…Nazareth Hill came highly recommended by a fellow librarian who also happens to be a horror ...more
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Read in November, 2007
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Okay. I'm not a reader of horror/suspense fiction and happened across this book as a random pull off the library shelf. It seemed mildly intriguing, but I honestly couldn't make it more than 50 pages into it. The story was sloooow and the dialogue awful! I can't even describe the inane conversations of the characters. And the 'apartment security meeting' was the end of it for me. Explain to me why a man in an apartment building would call his neighbors together at random, suggest forming a watch...more
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A father and daughter move into a building that once housed a mental institution and the former occupants wreck havoc on the new tenants. This is one of the scariest books I have ever read. There were a couple of passages that frightened me so badly, I had to put the book down. The setting is divinely creepy and the characters are interesting and well-developed.
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Read in July, 2004
A chilling story... As a child, Amy was afraid of the old building on the hill, called Nazerill by the town's inhabitants. Now, at fifteen, she and her father have taken up residence in that same building, which has been converted into luxury apartments. But the house on the hill holds dark secrets, and they are worming their way to the surface...
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This guy's books are fabulously written and one of the few authentically scary authors out there... so much so that I actually don't recommend reading him. Pleasurable disquietude that has too much disquietude and not enough pleasure. Sorry, ramsey!
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Having a hard time getting into this book, but I suspect it is going to be great once I do!
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