tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post4871662779063524875..comments2024-03-06T11:11:48.095-08:00Comments on Too Much Horror Fiction: The Doll Who Ate His Mother by Ramsey Campbell (1976): Tell Your Children Not to Walk His WayWill Erricksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-86547016750898920822014-03-22T12:31:56.841-07:002014-03-22T12:31:56.841-07:00Thanks Proflandry! Be sure to try Campbell's s...Thanks Proflandry! Be sure to try Campbell's short story collections DARK COMPANIONS, DEMONS BY DAYLIGHT, and the Lovecraft-inspired COLD PRINT.Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-53040291532366605562014-03-22T07:57:42.498-07:002014-03-22T07:57:42.498-07:00I just finished reading "The Doll Who Ate His...I just finished reading "The Doll Who Ate His Mother," which I'd been meaning to read for ages, ever since reading about the book in "Dance Macabre." <br /><br />I really enjoyed it. I haven't read much by Campbell, and definitely want to read more. I am glad someone else mention that he or she was sometimes confused by his writing. There were times that I had to Proflandryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13621526000604534934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-2841460305841460282014-02-10T22:42:16.884-08:002014-02-10T22:42:16.884-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09480841904984706949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-53386353836300131602012-05-25T02:53:49.511-07:002012-05-25T02:53:49.511-07:00And I confess my stuff isn't often accused of ...And I confess my stuff isn't often accused of lacking ambiguity - far more frequently the opposite! But ANCIENT IMAGES was a conscious bid to write about an ordinary uncomplicated central character. I don't do that much now.Ramsey Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212350036758421940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-66390569521917702252012-05-25T02:41:32.559-07:002012-05-25T02:41:32.559-07:00"Also, I don’t know if Ancient Images was rea..."Also, I don’t know if Ancient Images was really representative, but it also had the kind of worthiness of a middle brow 80s/90s male author gifting a female character with his idea of intellectual superiority: ‘she read Umberto Eco’ (no title; presumably the words ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’ would give us ghouls a brain haemorrhage)."<br /><br />No, not at all. It would have been prescient Ramsey Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212350036758421940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-28131803235732960862011-03-23T16:19:21.248-07:002011-03-23T16:19:21.248-07:00Now I'm definitely looking forward to Face tha...Now I'm definitely looking forward to <i>Face that Must Die</i>...Will Erricksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-18633928818737424642011-03-15T20:41:33.093-07:002011-03-15T20:41:33.093-07:00Hmmm. Maybe I should give this one a try. I've...Hmmm. Maybe I should give this one a try. I've sampled Campbell's books a few times but I was never interested enough to actually finish one.Matt Bradshawhttp://rediscoveringhorrorfiction.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-69917136643066992952011-03-15T18:25:02.217-07:002011-03-15T18:25:02.217-07:00It's interesting. I like the idea of Ramsey Ca...It's interesting. I like the idea of Ramsey Campbell more than his actual books. Does that make sense. I do like THE FACE THAT MUST die very much, though. It is my favorite book of his.<br /><br />Another writer I never got into was Charles Grant. Again, I liked the idea of him, but I found his grammar and syntax virtually impenetrable. I must have started reading his first Oxrum Station bookPhantom of Pulphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03684169251989469824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-61178314300397369082011-03-13T06:02:02.777-07:002011-03-13T06:02:02.777-07:00Interesting review. I read this yonks ago but reme...Interesting review. I read this yonks ago but remember little about it. However, I recently read a novel ‘Ancient Images’ by Ramsey Campbell which really got on my nerves because it used some ideas I’d had before, but then discarded them in favour of a rather clichéd folk horror. I feel there is something uncomfortable about Campbell; a gifted writer of description and insightful about little Gregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14729641571904025752noreply@blogger.com