First published back in 1988, Campbell’s psychological horror ‘The Influence’ delves into the world of the spirit and the afterlife. He quickly sets the situation of the book down, with the introduction of the very close-knit Faraday family, then slowly builds the tension as the story unfolds. Ca...
A book that concerns a group of people who underwent a controlled experiment in prophetic dreaming. The experiment eventually went wrong and had to be called off due the ominous nature of what was beginning to take place on those involved. The story takes place eleven years later, when a dark for...
Continuing Samhain Horror's line of reprinted Ramsey Campbell's novels is "The Hungry Moon", an eerie tale about a small England village besieged first by rabid Christian Evangelicals and then the dark, pagan, moon-worshiping force they accidentally awaken. For the most part a smart story offeri...
Ramsey Campbell is an author seemingly as prolific as he is influential – I'm a big fan, but I've still got a number of his books to read. Fortunately my wife got me four of his books newly reissued as paperbacks from PS Publishing for Christmas. The first I've read is The Overnight.(Before we st...
Part social commentary, part dark comedy, Ramsey Campbell’s 2006 publication of Secret Story is mostly just a good old-fashioned page turning thriller about creepy adult children and their absentee fathers and oblivious and enabling mothers. Let’s get one thing straight; Dudley Smith is not Dexte...
A terribly slow driven, painfully plodding story that only takes a slightly interesting shape more than two thirds into the novel.If you like slowly paced and atmospheric reads then you may like this a lot better than I. I am more of a fast-paced reading kind of a guy. I don't need a hundred or...
I got this for a specific story ("The Trick"), which turned out not to be in it, but never mind.By halfway through the book I had Campbell's plot structure figured out.Angst-ridden protag sees/feels/experiences things that are a bit odd. Dismisses them out of hand. Spends 5 or more pages bleating...
I really enjoyed this story. I don't think it's one I'd ever read twice, but I did like it. I struggled through some characters' perspectives and found myself at constant internal conflict over my opinion of a few of them. I can't honestly say that I actually liked any of them completely. Persona...