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Post by andydecker on Apr 29, 2023 14:28:36 GMT
Ramsey Campbell - The Retrospective & Other Phantasmagorical Stories (PS Publishing, 2020, hc, 575 pages)  Cover: Glenn Chadbourne Contents: Introduction: Part Secundus
Meeting the Author
The Alternative
The Wrong Game
A Street Was Chosen
The Same in Any Language
Reading the Signs
Where They Lived
The Word
The Dead Must Die
Going Under
The Callers
The Entertainment
No Strings
Getting It Wrong
Holding the Light
No Story in It
The Retrospective
The Room Beyond
Feeling Remains
The Rounds
The Place of Revelation
The Decorations
With the Angels
Just Behind You
Skeleton Woods
Digging Deep
The Moons
Respects
Passing Through Peacehaven
The Long Way
Never to Be Heard
Double Room
At Lorn Hall
This is the second collection of Ramsey Campbell's stories, published recently bei PS Publishing. Again a fine hardcover, this volume contains works from 1998 to 2016. Like in vol. 1 there is no information of the origin of the stories. Which (again) is a shame. A casual glance at the bibliography reveal a lot of original anthologies which have come and gone.
But this a technical critique. For a reader with no access to those "newer" anthologies - which a lot are out of print -, this is a good opportunity to sample Mr Campbell's newer stories and novelette's. Cover and interior illustrations are by Glenn Chadbourne. This time all is in b/w and are more successful. But this is a matter of taste, I hasten to add.
Together these two hefty tomes are a must have, if you like the work of this author, who now has been publishing his fiction for more than 60 years.
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