Новинки Рэмси Кэмпбелла — стр. 2

Это сооружение построил некий миллионер. Он собирался использовать его как убежище на случай ядерной войны, поэтому на складах первых этажей он размещал съестные и прочие припасы. Вскоре после завершения строительства его признали невменяемым и упрятали в психушку. Теперь верхние этажи здания используются как временные офисы, а склады очищены и заброшены. Однако при расчистке обнаружилось, что большая часть припасов съедена. Казалось бы, ничего особенного. Но почему тогда уборщицы всегда уходят так рано, и даже ночной сторож пренебрегает своими обязанностями, из подвала слышатся странные звуки, а припозднившимся работникам офисов порой…

Charlotte Nolan and her cousins may not have ended up in the jobs they hoped to have when they were teenagers, but they've made their way in life. Charlotte works for a London publisher, Ellen cares for the elderly, Hugh has left teaching to work in a supermarket while his brother Rory is a controversial artist. Then more than their jobs begin to go wrong as something reaches out of the past for them. What has it to do with the summer night they spent on Thursaston Common? If the dreams they had that night are catching up with them, how is the Victorian occultist Arthur Pendemon involved? Before the nightmare ends more than one of them will have to enter what remains of Pendemon's house and confront what still lives there in the dark.

Два авторских сборника рассказов, роман, а также несколько рассказов из других сборников.
Сборник «Демоны белого дня» переведен по изданию 1973 года. В издании 1979 и последующих годов состав и порядок произведений были частично изменены.
Раздел «Мрачные спутники», несмотря на название, не соответствует одноименному сборнику. В него вошли лишь три рассказа из указанной книги и еще один — из другой. Кроме того, по неизвестным причинам рассказ «Марионетки», также входящий в сборник, вынесен в начало книги, вне разделов.
Рассказы, в оглавлении обозначенные как «Человек, вмешивающийся не в свои дела» и «Старые свирели», в самом тексте имеют другие названия

One of the most respected living horror writers in the world, Campbell has more awards for his horror tales than any other author, and "is likely to be remembered as the leading horror writer of our generation," according to S.T. Joshi. One of the heirs apparent to early-twentieth-century American author H. P. Lovecraft, Campbell's horror stories are often set in contemporary Merseyside, England, his own hometown, and involve quite ordinary characters. His unsettling, dreamlike prose, however, transforms his work into very effective horror fiction.

The most famous Victorian rarity may be a stamp the Penny Black but it is several times more common than the rarest Victorian book. It is possible that no copy of The Revelation of Gla aki still exists anywhere in the world. The most evil book, or a lost contribution to the literature of occultism? Like the contents of the Library of Alexandria, it may have passed into legend... So wrote Leonard Fairman, the Brichester University archivist, but he couldn t have dreamed of the response. His essay has hardly appeared online before he s offered a copy of the book. All he has to do is stay overnight in the Northern coastal town of Gulshaw at least, that s his plan. What else is there to keep him in the town, even if its slogan is So Much More to See? Why are there so many people on the beach at night, and in the sea? Why does he have to use such a circuitous route to find his prize, and why do the people he encounters seem to share a secret? What keeps giving him dreams of a stone cocoon voyaging through space and falling to earth? Each of the volumes he reads brings him closer to a revelation, but perhaps it will be on him before he sees it coming... Ramsey Campbell first saw print more than fifty years ago, with tales that reflected his love of H. P. Lovecraft s work. His first book The Inhabitant of The Lake was rooted in Lovecraft, and the definitive edition is published by PS Publishing. Now Campbell returns to his own Lovecraftian territory and reshapes it in terms of Lovecraft s vision in this new novella.

Appearing in cultures the world over and frequently corresponding with Jungian archetypes, horror images and narratives have roots in various mythical and spiritual belief systems. By depicting the horrific consequences of indulging in unproductive, tabooed behavior, such fiction is socially instructive; a mechanism for perpetuating the laws and values of the collective. Thus the young woman who becomes a bit too familiar with the men folk finds herself deceived by a demon in disguise. The man who attempts to play God deludes himself, his efforts resulting in abomination and ruin. Those who push too far beyond the boundary of that which is known come to pay a terrible price. If anything is absolutely certain about works of horror fiction, it’s that they touch us in a very personal way, and what we take away from that experience—whether positive or negative—is very much our own.

Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive

Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is

proud to present Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" in digital for the first time.

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the

everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive

Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.

Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are

at once terrifying, tender, and witty. The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive

Barker for many years to come.

This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and

"In the Hills, the Cities," as well as the original introduction to volumes one, two, and three by Ramsey Campbell, and a new introduction by author David

Niall Wilson.

Peel your eyes open, get comfortable, and let three of the horror genre’s hardest hitters take you for a ride. Prepare yourselves, my friends, for you are placing your sanity in the hands of these masters of the macabre. Three brand new stories guaranteed to slice open a smile. “Three tremendous tales by three tremendous writers.” –Edward Lee, author of Witch-Water and Lucifer’s Lottery

Twenty years ago three young boys staggered out of an old building, tired and dirty yet otherwise unharmed. Missing for a weekend, the boys had no idea of where they’d been. But they all shared the same vague memory of a shadowed woodland grove…and they swore they’d been gone for only an hour.

When Simon returns to the Concrete Grove to see his old friends and unearth painful memories from his childhood, things once buried begin to claw their way back to the surface.

The hummingbirds are flying again, bringing a warning of something terrible. Bad dreams take on physical form and walk the streets of the estate. A dark, hideously patient entity is calling once again from the shadows, reaching out towards three terrified boys who have now grown into emotionally damaged men. And the past is about to catch up with them all, staining their lives with a darkness they could never truly escape. Welcome back to the Concrete Grove. The place you can never really leave…

„Nie musisz umierać, chyba że tego chcesz…”

Dla rodziny Faradayów słowa te okazały się początkiem koszmaru, w jaki pewnego ponurego wieczoru zmieniło się ich życie.

Głowa rodu, Queenie, umiera i zostaje pochowana razem z medalikiem, w którym znajduje się kosmyk włosów jej ośmioletniej wnuczki, Rowan. Wkrótce potem Rowan poznaje nową przyjaciółkę, dziwnie staromodną Vicky. Pod jej wpływem dziewczynka zaczyna buntować się przeciwko własnej rodzinie; nagle staje się zimna, zarozumiała i zamknięta w sobie.

Jedynie jej matka, Alison, domyśla się przerażającej prawdy – Queenie spełniła swoją przepowiednię i w ciele Rowan wróciła do świata żywych. Ale czy ktoś jej uwierzy? A nawet jeśli, to czy będą w stanie uwolnić dziewczynkę spod złego wpływu, jaki Queenie zza grobu wywiera na jej duszę i ciało?

This new edition of The Influence features J.K. Potter's rare photographs, outtakes, and a fifty-page interview with Ramsey Campbell.

A collection of short stories by Ramsey Campbell.

Once upon a time Tubby Thackeray's silent comedies were hailed as the equal of Chaplin's and Keaton's, but now his name has been deleted from the history of the cinema. Some of his music-hall performances before he went to Hollywood were riotously controversial, and his last film was never released - but why have his entire career and all his films vanished from the record?
Simon Lester is a film critic thrown out of a job by a lawsuit against the magazine he helped to found. When he's commissioned to write a book about Thackeray and restore the comedian's reputation, it seems as if his own career is saved. His research takes him from Los Angeles to Amsterdam, from dusty archives to a hardcore movie studio. But his research leads to something far older than the cinema, something that has taken a new and even more dangerous shape...

Живая легенда жанра ужасов! Трехкратный лауреат премии Брэма Стокера и пятикратный лауреат всемирной премии фэнтези!
«Хороших писателей ужасов не так много, а Кэмпбелл не просто хороший. Он выдающийся». Стивен Кинг"
Саймон – бывший кинокритик, человек без работы, перспектив и профессии, так как журнал, где он был главным редактором, признали виновным в клевете. Когда Саймон получает предложение от университета написать книгу о забытом актере эпохи немого кино, он хватается за последнюю возможность спасти свою карьеру. Тем более материал интересный: Табби Теккерей – клоун, на чьих представлениях, по слухам, люди буквально умирали от смеха. Комик, чьи фильмы, которые некогда ставили вровень с творениями Чарли Чаплина и Бастера Китона, исчезли практически без следа, как будто их специально постарались уничтожить.
Саймон начинает по крупицам собирать информацию в закрытых архивах, на странных цирковых представлениях и даже на порностудии, но чем дальше продвигается в исследовании, тем больше его жизнь превращается в жуткий кошмар, из которого словно нет выхода… Ведь Табби забыли не просто так, а его наследие связано с чем-то, что гораздо древнее кинематографа, чем-то невероятно опасным и безумным.
Ramsey Campbell, 2007
Григорий Шокин, перевод, 2017
Михаил Емельянов, иллюстрация, 2017
ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2018

You're an underpaid civil servant who dreams of chucking it all to become a famous author. You live with your overbearing mother who always seems to interrupt when you're writing a key scene. Your imagination is dark, your inspiration the terrible things that can happen to a young woman traveling alone . . . .
Your terrifying short story about a horrible murder on an underground train is about to be published. Even better, it will be made into a movie. A pretty young journalist is pursuing you.
Except.
You've been fired.
The journalist wants an interview, not a date.
The film's director wants you to make a few changes in your story.
And, worst of all, your imagination has run dry.
You'll just have to kill someone new . . .

The story of a pyschotic, homophobic killer loose on the streets of Liverpool - an insight into the thoughts of a maniac.

A bookstore can be a wonderful, welcoming place of both commerce and curiosity. That's the goal for Woody, an American recently transferred to England to run a branch of Texts. He wants a clean, orderly store and lots of sales to show his bosses when they arrive from the States for a pre-Christmas inspection. Not easy given the shop's location in a foggy strip mall.
And things keep going wrong. No matter how often the shelves are put in order before the doors are locked at night, when the staff returns in the morning, books are lying all over the floor, many damp and damaged beyond repair. The store's computers keep acting up-errors appear in brochures and ads and orders disappear completely. And even when the machines are turned off, they seem to glow with a spectral gray light.

The hit-and-run death of an employee in the store's parking lot marks a turning point. One employee accuses another of making sexual advances and they come to blows. Between one sentence and the next, one loses his ability to read. The security monitors display half-seen things crawling between the stacks that vanish before anyone can find them.

Desperate, Woody musters his staff for an overnight inventory. When the last customers reluctantly depart, leaving almost-visible trails of slime shining behind them, the doors are locked, sealing Woody and the others inside for a final orgy of shelving.

The damp, grey, silent things that have been lurking in the basement and hiding in the fog may move slowly, but they are inexorable. This bookstore is no haven. It is the doorway to a hell unlike any other.

Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most honored author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell's writing, including several award-winners. Campbell crowns the book with a length preface-revised for this edition-which traces his early publication…

Ramsey Campbell is the world's most honored living horror writer, with more than twenty World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and other awards to his credit. Hailed as one of the most literate and literary writers of our time, in genre and out, Campbell has been acclaimed as a "master of dark fantasy" by Clive Barker, one of today's "finest writers of supernatural horror and psychological suspense" by the Charleston Post & Courier, the "master of a skewed and exquisitely terrifying style" by Library Journal, "one of the world's foremost horror writers" by the San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, and a "master of mood" by Publishers Weekly.

In The Darkest Part of the Woods, Campbell introduces readers to the Price family, whose lives have for decades been snarled with the fate of the ancient forest of Goodmanswood. Here, Dr. Lennox Price discovered a hallucinogenic moss that quickly became the focus of a cult-and though the moss and the trees on which it grew are long gone, it seems as if the whole forest can now affect the minds of visitors.

After Lennox is killed trying to return to his beloved wood, his widow seems to see and hear him in the trees-or is it a dark version of the Green Man that caresses her with leafy hands? Lennox's grandson heeds a call to lie in his lover's arms in the very heart of the forest-and cannot help but wonder what the fruit of that love will be.

And Heather, Lennox's daughter, who turned her back on her father's mysteries and sought sanctuary in the world of facts and history? Goodmanswood summons her as well . . .

Spectral terrors abound, and monsters who might live next door or in our own heads. We learn why we should never play cards with strangers, and the perils of attending press shows of films. We glimpse a book that may render all others redundant, and encounter another that is too full of ghosts. A roadside mirror contains more than a reflection, and a bedroom mirror shows what may be in store for us all. Telephone advertising gives rise to a nightmare, and so does a Mediterranean holiday. A nostalgic train journey ends in dread, but leaving a train leads there too. Two street musicians may make the reader anxious to placate such entertainers with at least a coin. The author's wife exerts a calming influence in a collaboration, but his delirium is irrepressible, and readers with recherché preferences will be rewarded by a troupe of rampant midgets.

All this, of course, is in the best possible taste.

The contents range from immediately after the completion of DEMONS BY DAYLIGHT thirty-five years ago to the beginning of this century. Here is a book not just for aficionados of horror but for anyone who relishes wit, language and the imagination Stephen King describes as "so uniquely Campbell that it might as well be trademarked."