Truegho
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Post by Truegho on Oct 25, 2012 0:54:42 GMT
Recently bought Campbell's Thieving Fear. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed. Story started off promising enough, but soon became slow and tedious and boring.
I have to admit, I do prefer Campbell's short stories to his novels, as in the latter the story seems to take ages before something happens.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Oct 25, 2012 12:45:46 GMT
I can only apologise, but I must say I don't see what I could have cut.
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Post by mattfinucane on Nov 7, 2012 18:25:34 GMT
Far be it from me (as a newbie) to leap in and defend Ramsey for-God's-sake Campbell, but at risk of sounding like an arse-creeper: I thought this one was a definite return to form. Shadowy, subtle, pacy, vivid.
(Couldn't finish "Grin of The Dark" - an interesting experiment that doesn't quite come off, especially writing in the present tense like, uh, what I'm doing now....)
On a vaguely-related note, why's it so damn hard to get affordable editions of anything since "Thieving Fear"...?
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Post by ramseycampbell on Nov 7, 2012 21:50:30 GMT
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Post by playloup66 on Nov 8, 2012 15:59:12 GMT
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Post by mattfinucane on Nov 9, 2012 14:06:24 GMT
Ah, yes - thanks, guys. Trouble is, you don't see em in the shops anymore. (Which is why PS Publishing had, stupidly of me, slipped my mind.)
It's all romantic chaste vampire drips and sodding wall-to-wall zombies in Waterstones... I remember when it were all fields, full of Lovecraft and *really dodgy* paperbacks... W H Smiths... Guy N Smith... etc. Ah well. Perhaps the tide'll turn again; it often does, eventually.
(Hope that made sense - am a bit hungover.) Anyway, thread derailment over. As you were, chaps.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 9, 2012 14:50:16 GMT
Even so, it would be better for everyone if PS could strike up a deal with a major to publish mass-market paperback editions of their titles. Something i've learned through Vault is there are a significant minority of fans - please note, spammers - don't have credit cards, so the on-line delights of Am*z*n are denied them (P.S. pre-sale prices likewise). I know next to nothing about the industry so perhaps this is very naive of me, but if 'horror' is going to elbow Twilight & Co. from the shelves of the few remaining High Street book-stores, it needs to start selling in King/ Herbert/ GNS/ Barker/ Hutson & Co. proportions again, and it's not going to do that via specialist publishers or the small press.
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Post by mattfinucane on Nov 9, 2012 16:44:51 GMT
Absolutely. That's a more cogent version of what I was banging on about. Shame there's no easy answer.
Bah!
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albie
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Post by albie on Oct 3, 2015 10:38:20 GMT
The best thing about Thieving Fear was the hallucination of the monster. Other than that it just seemed to be about people becoming confused.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2015 13:17:48 GMT
The best thing about Thieving Fear was the hallucination of the monster. Other than that it just seemed to be about people becoming confused. I thought the reveal of the discrepancy between how one character saw herself and how she was perceived by others (i.e. reality) was brilliantly handled. The final descent into the buried house was exceptionally creepy. I see what you mean about the constant confusion, though. The never-ending stream of puns and misunderstandings that made up the dialogue grew a little tiring.
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