![]() ![]() Even better, start with the short story collection Dark Companions. Also, his work runs the gamut from crime-suspense to psychological, and outright supernatural horror, so he's kind of hard to peg.Ĭampbell is also one of the few writers in the horror genre to have fully understood Lovecraft's concept of cosmic horror, re-working it into a unique, contemporary vision.Īs a starting point, I'd recommend The Doll Who Ate His Mother or The Parasite before tackling one of the later novels. The parasite Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The reader needs to pay closer attention than usual, and the payoff isn't always where it's expected to be. Twenty years after a game of Ouija ends in a ten-year-olds disappeara. His work can be frustrating at times, I'll admit, and it's chock full of VERY British colloquialisms. Read 83 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Slowly building an atmosphere of dread and helplessness is a Campbell specialty - it takes its time but it is usually worth the wait. And yet, even after such a realization, there often remains a heightened sense of malignancy to the general atmosphere. I love when he pulls literary tricks like describing a pale, slug-like appendage writhing in a gutter which on a second, panicked look turns out to be nothing more than a breeze-blown scarf. I don't know that I'd call Campbell's work quiet horror so much as surreal horror. ![]()
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