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Post by albie on Nov 15, 2018 11:16:55 GMT
Reading END OF A SUMMER'S DAY made me feel mentally ill. I get the same level of weirdness from Aickman but he's not as consistent as Campbell.
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Post by albie on Nov 10, 2018 11:30:40 GMT
Spooky stuff of course. Short stories. Collections. Novels.
Thanks in advance.
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Post by albie on Nov 9, 2018 11:26:05 GMT
Someone else on this planet has also read Waldrop? Few are the blessed. Great vampire story too. I recall the coach riding over undulating streets.
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Post by albie on Nov 6, 2018 11:27:51 GMT
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Post by albie on Oct 23, 2018 13:40:54 GMT
Still is. I sometimes think Ramsey's world has spilled out onto reality.
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Post by albie on Oct 20, 2018 10:25:14 GMT
Check out his drawings from an early age. link
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Post by albie on Oct 20, 2018 10:23:01 GMT
Went into a grotty little charity shop the other day and as I was making for the books the woman serving told me all the books were free because they were closing down.
Music to my ears.
And the books weren't the usual fare you get nowadays in charity shops. You just don't find old horror books or anthologies anymore.
I found two by Shaun Hutson. The First Armada Book of Ghost Stories and DARK TERRORS 6(with that gnarly cover). I'd read most of the stories and recalled reading The Retrospective by Campbell. But I gave it a read as I could not remember the story. It was great. Full of surreal images. If Campbell had not been a writer he would have made a great conceptual artist in the vein of The Chapman Brothers.
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Post by albie on Oct 11, 2018 10:24:15 GMT
CHUCKY COMES TO LIVERPOOL? It can't be! I would love Campbell to really stab his way into the mainstream horror world.
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Post by albie on Oct 11, 2018 10:06:27 GMT
(contains slight spoilers) Probably my favourite novel by Campbell. A monster-a-thon. By which I mean there were several distinct monsters in the story, but still all related. Love the character of Danny Swain. I even write under that nom de plume. I think he is the one and only hero to actually inflict some damage upon a Campbellian monster. Hurray! If we don't count the guy from AGAIN. Which I don't for obvious reasons. A nice showcase for the typical Campbell monster: a shape-shifting dream thing. A blob that takes on some psychological form. Like the mind itself, I imagine.
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Post by albie on Oct 11, 2018 9:57:03 GMT
Read GROWING BOYS for the first time the other day. Wow. So absurd. Really makes use of the ambiguity of words. Just how big were those boys? This one stands out in my memory as my least favorite Aickman story, though I can’t recall why. Maybe it wasn’t spooky enough. Then again, perhaps it’s my materialistic orientation combined with the immaturity of my soul (I’ll own up to all of that). My tastes stem from the surreal as well as the spooky. I'm happy to have either but especially both. The story provided both for me. It inspired the usual Aickman feeling. I wonder if it is the same feeling we all receive when we read this scribe.
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Post by albie on Oct 10, 2018 15:41:25 GMT
Read GROWING BOYS for the first time the other day. Wow. So absurd. Really makes use of the ambiguity of words. Just how big were those boys?
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Post by albie on Oct 9, 2018 10:39:56 GMT
The story may have been the sucking pit or the wood. I know it all centred around a wood. One scene had a zombie raping a woman in a grave or pit despite him having no organs to perform the act.
You mean there are worse than DEATH BELL? Lordy. I want to read them just to prove this.
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Post by albie on Oct 8, 2018 10:17:49 GMT
Possibly the worst novel I ever half read. The descriptions of the bell's noise attacking people are so weirdly bad. Some people say Hutson is the worst horror writer in publication. They should read this.
Not to say I've hated all his books. One was good. I cannot recall the name. Something to do with a wood. Possibly a sequel.
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Post by albie on Oct 6, 2018 10:20:53 GMT
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Post by albie on Oct 4, 2018 10:26:23 GMT
Indeed? Could you recommend a few by Walter De La Mare that fits the bill?
Come to think of it I have read SEATON'S AUNT and that was pretty strange.
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