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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:52:49 GMT
I started to re-read this recentley. The man falling from the tower block at the start of the book is a powerful segment. Funnily, the day I chose to read this TOWER OF EVIL was on the telly!
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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:48:33 GMT
HA. Croak-A-Cola. get it? Because he's croaked. Willy.
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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:35:38 GMT
The End of a Summer's Day freaked me out most of all his stories. But only once. I could never recapture that feeling. Maybe it just activated some deeply buried fear in me.
The Stocking made no sense to me at all. The last line, often the veil being lifted, confused me the most.
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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:28:21 GMT
>>Sometime around the mid-seventies, Ramsey evidently realised the error of his ways and embarked on what he describes as his EC period The errors of his ways! I would say he trod more familiar ground so he could lay a few Ramsey bombs on home territory. That and paying the bills.
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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:25:01 GMT
>>I enjoyed much of his acclaimed 1973 collection, Demon's By Daylight, but, as with Robert Aickman's more bizarre creations, I still find it hard to comprehend what certain of Ramsey's stories are about no matter how many times I read them. Much of The Height Of The Scream seemed like horror-goes-prog. rock and sent me scurrying back to Seabury Quinn and his endless procession of mad scientists and vampires where at least you knew where you stood.
Hahah. That's part of what makes Ramsey so great. They are about things that cannot be known or explained, well, unless you have a god like grip on psychology and suggestion. Derren Brown might like these stories, I think.
They are dreams written out as fact. They make you feel like you are dreaming.
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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:21:16 GMT
>> Being a member of IMDB, I can certainly vouch for there being characters like smilemime about (I never post there, only a member to read threads).
Not to blow my own trumpet, but in the early days of the Ramsey Campbell forum I was a bit of a troll and I did used to pretend I was a supernatural entity. Which I still am.
I also once admitted to a delusion I had had as a teenager when I was taken over by a ghost with a big smile. But it could be coincidence.
And me and Ramsey have not got on sometimes. But I'm no CB.
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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:15:50 GMT
The Brood isn't a tale I would recommend to get you hooked. The Companion though...or The Guy. Maybe you have to have a gene. I'm glad I have it. It's almost supernatural how they make you feel. Books don't do that! Maybe you have to start reading them at a specific point in your life. I was heading for weirdness when I picked up my first. He creates a landcape that you would fear and desire. It feels like home. Sounds mad.
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Post by albie on Mar 13, 2009 13:08:50 GMT
Ramsey's short stories are like an alternate universe that intersects mine. I like to gather up the feelings they give me and pretend they are my past.
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Post by albie on Mar 4, 2009 13:13:53 GMT
Someone should write a novel about a killer who recreates the covers of horror anthos...with real bodies.
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Post by albie on Mar 4, 2009 13:10:59 GMT
That was indeed a memorable tale.
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Post by albie on Mar 4, 2009 13:08:07 GMT
I thought it was low as in bad or something. Then the cop in MONSTER CLUB prounces it "luffville"
I wonder if Louth, where they had the "ufo" turbine has a misty area. Could have been a ghoul rock being thrown that damaged the propellor. Dug up for good eating.
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Post by albie on Mar 4, 2009 12:04:17 GMT
Oh, I get it. Loughville. Lough= anagram of ghoul.
I'm reet daft me.
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Post by albie on Oct 9, 2008 14:25:31 GMT
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Post by albie on Oct 9, 2008 11:59:49 GMT
Isn't that clip the 1996 Trilogy of Terror 2, and not the 77 version?
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Post by albie on Oct 9, 2008 11:31:44 GMT
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