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Post by andydecker on Sept 18, 2021 14:00:39 GMT
Can't believe there is no cover. Ramsey Campbell - Incarnate (TOR Books, 1984, original Macmillan, 1983, 499 p.)
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Post by dem bones on Sept 18, 2021 16:53:13 GMT
Can't believe there is no cover. ... and this was the UK hardback. Ramsey Campbell - Incarnate (Granada, 1984) Peter Gudynas Blurb: The horror started when a 'controlled' experiment in prophetic dreaming got wildly out of control. It was aborted - but not before some dark door to a screaming shadow-world of nightmare had been opened and left ajar.
Now, as a bitter winter holds the country in its corpse-cold grip, a monstrous presence begins to invade the lives of the original participants.
Creatures glimpsed fleetingly in the original group dream eleven years ago are drawing them inexorably into a dreadful vortex of hallucination, insanity - and worse.
One by one the dreamers succumb to the diabolical force that threatens much more than their mere lives. Only Molly, a young TV production assistant, decides to fight. Together with Martin, the crusading American film director she comes to love, she fights desperately to understand the nature of the horror and conquer it before they, too, are absorbed and lost forever.
Ramsey Campbell - 'surely the most sophisticated stylist in modern horror' (Washington Post) - has created in Incarnate his most terrifying novel yet of the lurking fear that waits just beyond the rim of the unknown.
Incarnate will reverberate in your mind like a scream at midnight long after you have turned the last page.
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Post by ohthehorror on Sept 18, 2021 19:19:25 GMT
Here's another. One of the very few real, dead tree books I own. And it's a hardback too. This hardback edition published 1992 by 'Little, Brown and Company'.No credit for the cover piccy that I can find...and I even went to the trouble of scanning my own 'actual' copy, as opposed to my usual trick of googling an image.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 18, 2021 19:39:46 GMT
Prices for the various incarnations of INCARNATE are suddenly skyrocketing!
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Post by ohthehorror on Sept 18, 2021 19:56:36 GMT
I got mine for a couple of euro in a second hand shop in Dublin several years ago. I also got a copy of The Nameless at the same time. I don't think I paid more than a tenner for the three books at the time, the third one being The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories. And that one was worth that price alone. Another hardback too.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Sept 22, 2021 10:13:39 GMT
Can't believe there is no cover. ... and this was the UK hardback. Ramsey Campbell - Incarnate (Granada, 1984) Peter Gudynas Blurb: The horror started when a 'controlled' experiment in prophetic dreaming got wildly out of control. It was aborted - but not before some dark door to a screaming shadow-world of nightmare had been opened and left ajar.
Now, as a bitter winter holds the country in its corpse-cold grip, a monstrous presence begins to invade the lives of the original participants.
Creatures glimpsed fleetingly in the original group dream eleven years ago are drawing them inexorably into a dreadful vortex of hallucination, insanity - and worse.
One by one the dreamers succumb to the diabolical force that threatens much more than their mere lives. Only Molly, a young TV production assistant, decides to fight. Together with Martin, the crusading American film director she comes to love, she fights desperately to understand the nature of the horror and conquer it before they, too, are absorbed and lost forever.
Ramsey Campbell - 'surely the most sophisticated stylist in modern horror' (Washington Post) - has created in Incarnate his most terrifying novel yet of the lurking fear that waits just beyond the rim of the unknown.
Incarnate will reverberate in your mind like a scream at midnight long after you have turned the last page.The original image was more horrific, but I think some of the trade objected, and the distorted mouth was cropped out of sight.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 22, 2021 17:11:15 GMT
The original image was more horrific, but I think some of the trade objected, and the distorted mouth was cropped out of sight. I hate when they do that. Do you know if they informed the artist beforehand? Paperback Fanatic ran a piece on the artwork for the NEL edition of Pierce Nace's Eat Them Alive. The artist responsible (won't name him) was so disgusted with the crop job on his remarkable illo that he refused to acknowledge it as his work. Having seen the original, it's not difficult to sympathize.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Sept 23, 2021 13:23:16 GMT
The original image was more horrific, but I think some of the trade objected, and the distorted mouth was cropped out of sight. I hate when they do that. Do you know if they informed the artist beforehand? Paperback Fanatic ran a piece on the artwork for the NEL edition of Pierce Nace's Eat Them Alive. The artist responsible (won't name him) was so disgusted with the crop job on his remarkable illo that he refused to acknowledge it as his work. Having seen the original, it's not difficult to sympathize. Ah, that I don't know!
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