Comments on: 101 Weird Writers #42 — Ramsey Campbell ../ Your Non-Denominational Source for The Weird Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:28:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Jorge Jaramillo ../#comment-124042 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:28:17 +0000 ../../../../#comment-124042 This is great!

As I writer myself, that part about “the confusion of organic verbs with inorganic nouns” helped me out to finish a short story (in Spanish) I was stuck in. And now, I will indulge myself in some Ramsey Campbell reading, which will be my first time, actually.

]]> By: john siney ../#comment-121964 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 16:24:37 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121964 Would love to find ‘The Doll Who Ate His Mother” in ebook format. Moving to Liverpool as a student in 1971, and living in Toxteth for many years, I am so familiar with the area he writes of. Could never walk past Swainbanks Furniture Store, late nights after the pub (Peter Kavanagh’s, The Cracke, the Belvedere.…) without feeling a shudder run down the spine.…until it was burned down in the Toxteth Riots, that is!

]]> By: Ramsey Campbell ../#comment-121949 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 10:01:39 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121949 Hey there, Ray and Alexis! I’ll admit I’m fond of THE DARKEST PART OF THE WOODS — one of my better stabs at the Lovecraftian. It wasn’t actually retitled — that was THE HOUSE ON NAZARETH HILL (just NAZARETH HILL in America). INCARNATE is out of print just now, sorry…

Ted K says he may now complete his unfinished novel, which is splendid news.

]]> By: Alexis ../#comment-121916 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 16:24:20 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121916 Ray, I’m with you on The Darkest Part of the Woods. What a beautiful paperback it is. (I think the U.K. edition has a different title.)

I loved all the descriptions of the trees and leaves–so many ways to describe them! The story is dense and rich and moves along at a deliberate pace which I guess some readers don’t like, but I personally love getting lost in some of those passages. Best of all, I learned what SELCOUTH means.

Hopefully people start reading horror novels again. It would be unfortunate to see horror go the way of the western, because there’s a lot of great talent here.

]]> By: Alexis ../#comment-121909 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 16:06:28 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121909 Oh, my! I wasn’t expecting Mr. Campbell to respond. Thank you!!

If I had to choose one book, it would be Incarnate. The projection room scene toward the end is quite chilling.

I spotted a whole stack of your novels at a used bookstore in Patchogue, NY, and snapped them up without a second thought. I couldn’t believe that someone else hadn’t already. Lucky me.

Thank you, Mr. Campbell, for being so prolific while putting so much care into your craft. Now if only we could convince T.E.D. Klein to write more–or his publisher to release ebook editions–that would be great.

:)

]]> By: Ray Hewitt ../#comment-121778 Sun, 07 Aug 2016 21:12:00 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121778 Are you there Mr. Campbell? haha.
I see you are answering people on this board in person! So I thought I’d give you a shout out to tell you I’ve been a devoted fan of yours since I discovered your story collection The Height of the Scream. I went on to The Doll Who…and was hooked! I’d never read anything remotely like it. Many of your novels being consumed later- some I admit liking more than others, but I’m sure you’ll agree that that is as it should be, I found possibly my favorite: The Darkest Part of the Woods. I wanted to thank you for that book which I related to on a deep level in some subconscious way. The thing is I never see anyone online refer to it as the masterpiece of haunting melancholy that I believe it to be. I would love to know what your own thoughts are on that book and how you feel about the reception it received in the horror field. If you are still checking up on the posts here that is?
Your fan,
Ray Hewitt
Los Angeles

]]> By: Ramsey Campbell ../#comment-121584 Thu, 04 Aug 2016 11:30:48 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121584 Which books have you in mind, Alexis?

]]> By: Alexis ../#comment-121522 Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:11:21 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121522 What a great write-up! I got into Campbell after reading Joshi’s literary criticism. What a treat.

I have most of Campbell’s novels in mass market, as well as a few short story collections. Most of them I could only buy used. Do the publishers plan to do reprints? I don’t want my copies to fall apart completely.

]]> By: David Davis ../#comment-121434 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:09:46 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121434 Thank you Mr. Campbell! I’ve corrected the error.

]]> By: Ramsey Campbell ../#comment-121425 Tue, 02 Aug 2016 09:55:37 +0000 ../../../../#comment-121425 Well, thank you very much! Just one tiny correction — that first published tale of mine was actually “The Church in High Street”. DARK MIND, DARK HEART was the anthology in which it appeared.

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