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The Hungry Moon [Paperback]

Ramsey Campbell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Legend; New edition edition (16 Feb 1989)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0099491907
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099491903
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 397,743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hungry like the wolf� 28 Mar 2004
By Jane Aland VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
The Hungry Moon is very much a novel of two halves, with the reader having to plod through a mediocre beginning to reach an excellent climax. There are a number of problems with the first half of the book: the idea of an evangelist converting an isolated British village into rabid fundamentalism is fine, but by having almost the entire population convert overnight the novel loses any sense of reality; there are too many horror clichés - the isolated village no-one can escape from, the heroine with Celtic ancestry that enables her to see visions of the evil taking over the village, the mysterious old-timer who knows all the legends etc; and there are simply too many characters - Campbell seems to be aiming to build up the various inhabitants of the town, but without any clear lead character the focus is rather scattered, and we end up experiencing the same events (isolation, religious intolerance) repeatedly through different eyes.

If you can keep going through this rather flabby first half though, you will be rewarded with a gloriously macabre finale, as the malevolent creature from the moon takes over the preacher and the town. This is great stuff, with Campbell pilling on the disturbing imagery, and even managing to sneak in some subtle riffing on the werewolf genre without making it feel old and tired. It's not all plain sailing, as the heroine's ancestral visions are an all too convenient plot driver, and the dangled threat of a nearby nuclear missile base fizzles out and remains unutilised, but the quality of the writing is such that it's easy to forgive these slips.

A little too long and rambling, but once this story gets going it's a horror classic.

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2.0 out of 5 stars yawn yawn yawn 24 Nov 2012
By missreadalot
Format:Paperback
If you buy this book, I would recommend skipping to the last 5 chapters as this is where the story actually becomes gripping. The ending is brilliant, but the beginning is so boring and tedious. there are far too many characters, and not one of them seems to be the 'hero', and you kind of wonder what the point of them is... also you wonder why Campbell mentions a nuclear war base and keeps making reference to it when nothing ever happens with it! It's almost like he wants to draw you down that path and keep you guessing, but to be frank, it doesn't work.

I was confused a lot by things the characters were saying in places, as they didn't seem relevant to the plot at all, and I feel some of them should have been made more of. The 'preacher' in the book did not play a big enough role, and his character could have been a lot more intense to build up the readers' interest.

There were loose references to dogs becoming wild and eating people, but again, this was a weak attempt at werewolf activity, and it was not tenuous with the overall story. If you want to do a book about werewolves, then do a book about werewolves! If you want to do a book about a religious nut trying to brainwash a community then do a book about that, but do not attempt the two together unless you are actally good at writing things like that!

I only just managed to keep reading this book as there was a lot of pointless waffle, but I am glad I did because the ending is quite good.

Just a shame that on the whole this "horror story" is nothing like a horror story. The jobs of Dean Koontz/Stephen King and the like are very safe!!!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not hungry for more 21 Feb 2007
By REB
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I came to this book curious as to Campbell's renown as Britain's premier practitioner of the horror genre, previously having read only his short stories. Frankly I came away with no little bafflement as to the grounds for this reputation.

There are several worthy aspects to this novel: Campbell's imagery is genuinely disturbing, subtle and free from cliche; the attempts (perhaps neither, unfortunately, entirely successful) to address issues of religious fanaticism and nuclear weaponry - both still timely twenty years on; he also takes the trouble to paint his scene broadly, taking on a large cast of characters, most of whom are skillfully imagined. But this wide range is also one of the problems - there is simply too much content in the book, and furthermore, the quality of writing is somewhat uneven. I felt the novel was slightly too bloated, and its pace, although never exactly slow, overall a little too pedestrian.

And although Campbell generally avoids the more tedious staples of genre convention, some of the tropes are too wooden (one of the other reviews on this site nicely enumerates these creaking plot supports). Finally, although the prose is generally well wrought - transparent in its description and so on - it does stumble at places in the middle and towards the end of the book; although Campbell complains of being over-edited in his afterword, there was sufficient clumsiness in parts of the text to suggest that quite the opposite might be true.

All in all, the novel was perfectly readable, but not quite up to the standard of excellence I had hoped for given the author's good name.
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