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Ghosts and Grisly Things (Paperback)

by Ramsey Campbell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; New edition edition (27 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312867573
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312867577
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.6 x 2.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 67,533 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #1 in  Books > Horror > Authors > Contemporary Authors > Campbell, J. Ramsey
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"ShowcaseÝs Campbell's gift for a sense of understated, slowly growing supernatural menace. . . . "Ghosts and Grisly Things "is grim, grown-up horror." --"The Washington Post"
"Campbell's short stories continue to shape and expand the vocabulary of horror fiction. This collection . . . conjures nightmares from the most unlikely raw material." "-Publishers Weekly (starred review)"
"This is Campbell at his best." "-Kirkus Reviews"


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Ramsey Campbell's novels have justly won him acclaim as one of the best writers of the age. A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and eight-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, his writing has struck a chord with readers worldwide. GHOSTS AND GRISLY THINGS is a chilling collection of the best of Campbell's recent short fiction, much of it never before available - and one enigmatic story, entitled "Ra*e" is published here for the first time anywhere. The stories often begin with small everyday anxieties but Campbell uses this familiarity to pull the reader to extreme levels of intensity and madness.

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4.0 out of 5 stars quite a few good stories here., 3 Feb 2008
By B. J. Crossley "crossleysmn2" (England) - See all my reviews
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this book contains the best short horror stories that Ramsey has written -to my knowledge- the story "looking out" is fiendishly delightful, some other good ones too.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Ghosts and Grisly Things, 17 May 2007
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The title may bring to mind more explicit bogeymen but this collection of 20 short horror stories from Ramsey Campbell generally takes a more subtle angle into the supernatural. Obviously there is a fair range covered here, but some repeated themes include the psychological collapse of characters as they drift into realms of madness, characters under threat from hostile modern suburban environments, and the everyday horror of other people from obnoxious English holiday-makers abroad to neighbours and colleages.

As with most anthologies the quality varies somewhat, but Campbell's prose is strong enough to ensure the majority of these stories strike home: personal favourites include a mobile-phone obsessed man's descent into madness on a charity walk ('Going Under'); a guilty accountant who finds himself trapped between his affluent home-life and a darker alternate existence ('The Alternative'); an author under attack from a very bizarre paper salesman ('Out of the Woods'); a newspaper journalist haunted by doggerel of the dead ('McGonnagall in the Head'); the ghost of a bellboy haunting a hotel elavator ('Between the Floors'); a paranoid pensioner haunted by a strange face in his window ('Looking Out'); and - best of all - the delicious jet-black comedy of a religious maniac who imagines himself on a quest to save humanity from itself ('The Dead Must Die').

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