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The grin of the dark by ramsey campbell6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Not only was Campbell capable of writing a real page turner like King (I remember being almost unable to put down Obsession, Incarnate and The Influence, which remains one of my favourite reads), but he was - and still is - one of the most consistently artistic writers I’ve read. But thank God it was.) I can’t remember which of his I read first ( The Hungry Moon, perhaps), but it must have done the trick, because I quickly became hooked. (This was a secondhand bookshop, so its selection may have been misleading. Having read one King novel, I went back to the bookshop where I’d bought it and, wondering what England had to offer in a similar vein, picked Ramsey Campbell, judging, from a quick comparison of shelf-inchery, that he must be our nearest equivalent. ![]() I first got into Campbell’s fiction at about the age of sixteen when a friend convinced me to give Stephen King a go (it was pretty much the first horror I’d read - apart from a disastrous attempt at Dennis Wheatley I must go into some time - and I chose Salem’s Lot because a glimpse of the Nosferatu-inspired vampire on the trailer for the TV series still came back and gave me the creeps whenever I was alone in the house). As much as I enjoyed the last two books I read (and reviewed), Ramsey Campbell’s latest novel is the best thing I’ve read in some time. ![]()
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