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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 12, 2010 13:20:57 GMT
Long-form I'd go for The Hungry Moon and/or Ancient Images. No surprise then if I said I really like his Lovecraftian stuff - and the short-story collection I'd pick is Cold Print.
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Post by stuyoung on Aug 12, 2010 14:02:29 GMT
Cheers for the recommendations but as I've already got Incarnate, The Long Lost and Midnight Sun waiting to be read I'll probably go with them first.
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Post by cw67q on Aug 12, 2010 15:56:28 GMT
Cheers for the recommendations but as I've already got Incarnate, The Long Lost and Midnight Sun waiting to be read I'll probably go with them first. From those I'd recommend Midnight Sun, it is possibly my second favourite after Ancient Images. Incarnate I remember as another very fine read, but I've forgotten the details of the plot after all these years. I'm less fond of the Long Lost, some good scenes and ideas but it didn't really hold together for me. But all of Ramsey's novels are worth reading, even the "weaker" ones. It's hard to go wrong, really. - chris
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Post by marksamuels on Aug 12, 2010 16:03:07 GMT
The Grin of the Dark was brilliant; I actually liked it as a treatment of the same theme much more than Ancient Images (though I read the latter many moons ago).
Still haven't found a copy of Midnight Sun, and that's the one I'm dying to read!
Mark S.
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Post by cw67q on Aug 12, 2010 16:03:53 GMT
BTW on Ancient Images, shorlty after reading it some years back, I chose it as a book to read aloud to Babs (the missus). I remember Babs taking over at a really creepy part, I must have had a sore throat or something, where the heroine is making her way down a spooky tower in the dark. Anyway, Babs in her most serious and sinister voicing...There are many, many steps and she feels the (and here I paraphrase from memory with apologies to RC): "cramp running down her thighs" Unfortunately (?) Babs accidentaly missed out an all important letter from the above, making a highly memorable scene into an unforgettable one. I nearly had a heart attack. Despite this, the scene still creeps me out - chris
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Post by cw67q on Aug 12, 2010 16:12:07 GMT
The Grin of the Dark was brilliant; I actually liked it as a treatment of the same theme much more than Ancient Images (though I read the latter many moons ago). Still haven't found a copy of Midnight Sun, and that's the one I'm dying to read! Mark S. I must read this one. I thought I had it, but couldn't find it when I was looking for holiday reading a few weeks back. Ended up taking thieving Fear instead, which was readable but far from RC at his best (IMHO). - chris
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Post by Thana Niveau on Aug 12, 2010 16:33:47 GMT
Still haven't found a copy of Midnight Sun, and that's the one I'm dying to read! We could lend you our copy, Mark. But only if you're one of those people who actually returns books. ;D
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Post by noose on Aug 12, 2010 17:03:59 GMT
I utterly swear by Alone With the Horrors - some of my fave Ramsey stories all under one roof. Was never really a fan of the J.K. Potter photos that went along with it. Loveman's Comeback is my fave out the bunch.
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Post by stuyoung on Aug 12, 2010 17:57:30 GMT
Yeah, I was reading Alone With the Horrors a few months back. I think I'm about a third of the way through. Some great stories in there.
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 12, 2010 21:27:40 GMT
I picked up this Star paperback about 20 years ago in Swansea - it's one of my favourite horror novels, no excess baggage that you get with so many novels.
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Post by marksamuels on Aug 12, 2010 22:35:51 GMT
Still haven't found a copy of Midnight Sun, and that's the one I'm dying to read! We could lend you our copy, Mark. But only if you're one of those people who actually returns books. ;D I am ! And that's very kind; thank you, & thanks too to Lord P. But it's a book I really want to find and own for myself, and I'm sure one day it'll turn up in the Samuels clutches in the time-honoured fashion of my discovering a grimy yet strangely cosmic p.back in some 2nd hand bookshop. Well, I do hope so ! Mark S.
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Post by cw67q on Aug 13, 2010 10:22:11 GMT
Still haven't found a copy of Midnight Sun, and that's the one I'm dying to read! Mark S. Mark there are loads of copies of the Midnight Sun available through abebooks.co.uk, starting from 64p in price. A fair few second hand on amazon too. Or is it the thrill of the chase through the dusty fields of second hand bookshops that excites you? - chris
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Post by ramseycampbell on Aug 13, 2010 10:32:12 GMT
BTW on Ancient Images, shorlty after reading it some years back, I chose it as a book to read aloud to Babs (the missus). I remember Babs taking over at a really creepy part, I must have had a sore throat or something, where the heroine is making her way down a spooky tower in the dark. Anyway, Babs in her most serious and sinister voicing...There are many, many steps and she feels the (and here I paraphrase from memory with apologies to RC): "cramp running down her thighs" I shudder. Are you sure? I can't spot any reference to cramp in the scene...
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 13, 2010 10:38:27 GMT
Or is it the thrill of the chase through the dusty fields of second hand bookshops that excites you? You're asking a Vault member that?
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Post by David A. Riley on Aug 13, 2010 10:42:43 GMT
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