George's review
Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell
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 connoisseur. I figured it would be good. It wasn’t. Here’s my review: the story starts slowly and builds to a grisly, sadistic end which any discerning reader can see coming from the first chapter.
People talk about Ramsey Campbell like he’s the Bill Shakespeare of the horror genre. If that’s true the horror genre is in trouble. Horror writers seem to have a love-hate relationship with literary fiction, which either stems from a chip on the shoulder or an inferiority complex. Campbel...more
Anyway…Nazareth Hill came highly recommended by a fellow librarian who also happens to be a horror connoisseur. I figured it would be good. It wasn’t. Here’s my review: the story starts slowly and builds to a grisly, sadistic end which any discerning reader can see coming from the first chapter.
People talk about Ramsey Campbell like he’s the Bill Shakespeare of the horror genre. If that’s true the horror genre is in trouble. Horror writers seem to have a love-hate relationship with literary fiction, which either stems from a chip on the shoulder or an inferiority complex. Campbel...more
