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# Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991 Paperback – September 1, 2005

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    An excellent retrospective of Campbell's work, though cut down from previous editions.
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 22, 2017*

Ramsey Campbell is easily one of the best contemporary horror writers, and at their best his stories stand with the best of M.R. James, Poe, Lovecraft, Ligotti, and a few other masters of weird fiction. Alone with the Horrors does an excellent job of spanning thirty years of his career, though the majority of the stories were written between 1973 and 1980. It should be noted that this volume is more of a retrospective than a "best of," as is evidenced by the first story, "The Tower from Yuggoth," a Lovecraft pastiche which Campbell playfully criticizes in the introduction. Even so, the majority of the stories are good if not excellent.The volume contains what seem to be Campbell's two best known stories, "Mackintosh Willy" and "The Companion," (which Stephen King called one of the scariest stories ever written) as well as thirty-five other stories written between 1961 and 1991.The volume contains several provocative stories, but some of my absolute favorites are "The Scar," "The Man in the Underpass," "Mackintosh Willy" and especially "The Chimney," which continues to haunt me long after having first read it. This volume also presents an argument for Campbell as the absolute master of atmospheric horror in fiction- stories like "In the Bag" and "Down There" are claustrophobic and delightfully uncomfortable to read. The first paragraph of "In the Bag" makes me feel like I'm suffocating.---My only gripe with the Tor trade paperback (which is heavy and made with good quality paper) is that it has two things missing from older editions of the anthology. First, two of Campbell's erotic horror stories helped make up the 39 stories of the original volume. One of these, "Loveman's Comeback," is one of his best in my opinion. The introduction mentions that these were removed but does not explain why. I should note that in the new Tor edition Campbell has also swapped the first story for what was originally a different early Lovecraft imitation ("The Room in the Castle," I believe).Older paperbacks also included several haunting illustrations by J.K. Potter which I thought were a nice touch.All told, Campbell is a master of short fiction, in any genre, and this is the single most comprehensive volume of his work.

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    Not Stephen King
  

*by B***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 2, 2020*

Campbell is a genius but if you're a fan of Stephen King or the like, you may find Campbell a switch in literary style. It took me a few short stories to get the beat for how he writes, but if you give it a try it is just as satisfying a read, just on a different vantage point. Are the stories scary? Not for me, but they were interesting.

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    Descent into Nightmare
  

*by H***P on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2019*

Treat this as a gateway into the writing of dreams. Many stories don't feel like they inhabit the real world, and when reading them, neither do we. Some endings disappoint, but many stories are so slim and there's so many that if disliking one, there are still dozens ahead. Favorites were "The Guy," "The End of a Summer's Day," "The Man in the Underpass," "The Chimney," "The Gap," "Midnight Hobo," "Old Clothes," and "Apples."

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