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Needing Ghosts (Legend novellas) [Paperback]

Ramsey Campbell


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Product details

  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Century Pub.Co.; New e. edition (13 Sep 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712621598
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712621595
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.6 x 0.8 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,299,845 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family and for his identity as a published writer, whose talent is almost too big to bear. "Needing Ghosts" is one day in Simon's world - one day in which he doesn't need to imagine the worst because it's all around him.

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Rewriting Your Life 20 Oct 2011
By Jonathan Stover - Published on Amazon.com
Dandy standalone novella about one incredibly bad, odd day in the life of a writer. Campbell's command of the limited third-person voice is, as always, razor sharp in terms of working through the thoughts of a protagonist while maintaining a slight, objective distance.

Campbell's recurring tropes get full play here: strange shapes just slightly off-centre, seen in the distance or through something obscuring vision; a reality which baffles the protagonist more and more as the narrative develops; cool or even hostile reactions from the people whom the protagonist meets. The story occupies a day in the life, but there doesn't really seem to be any day as time itself (or is it just light?) bends and collapses.

Some of the fears explored here are indeed writerly. The protagonist's attempt to speak to a writers' group goes nightmarishly wrong, as do his attempts to find copies of his books in the baffling number of bookstores he stumbles across in close proximity to one another. But these are all yoked to more universal fears of bodily and mental disintegration, of fight or flight, of terrible and increasingly justified paranoia. It's a lovely, dense little tale.

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