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Title: Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell ISBN: 0-312-86344-6 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Speechless in the dark: Inner Terror, Outer Terror
Comment: Everybody today knows that real terror comes from within. It doesn't matter if it comes in through your own imagination, decaying relationships and subtle anxiety, as in Shirley Jackson's masterpiece The Haunting of Hill House - or if it comes running in your direction with a body made of bulging, retracting limbs as in Lovecraft, as in Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness. In his newest novel Nazareth Hill Ramsey Campbell does everything his clear prose can achieve in order to, in given time, leave the reader alone and speechless in the dark, face to face to the most horrid of the things: the reader himself, his/her own frailty and the supreme abomination of our own limitations. In the way, though, he submits the reader to both inner and outer terrors. In the beggining of the book the relationship of sixteen years-old Amy and her widowed father is already so psychologically tense that we immediately know that the entire book will be an excuse for its complete decaying. There are a lot of complex, self-conscious characters moving around and - of course - there is the house. Clearly there's a lot of Hill House in here, not so subtly designed but well-succeeded as well. But don't be fooled: there are bulging, pop-eyed, crawling terrors here too, and to Campbell it doesn't matter how real they are if he can make them can crawl in the corridors of your head and lurk in the shadow of a wardrobe. The climax comes wrapped in blood, fire, pain, darkness and possibly redemption, but - aren't all the climaxes the same? So if you want to be speechless in the dark take Mr. Campbell's hand and walk with him the gravel path that leads inside Nazareth Hill. For a number of reasons, I'm not going in there anymore. Or, as Shirley Jackson would know, whatever walks inside Nazreth Hill doesn't walk alone anymore.
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly terrifying book.
Comment: Ramsey Campbell, one of THE greatest horror writers of all time (at that is not just hyberbole folks), has penned one of the most disturbing "haunted" house thrillers I have ever read, and I have read a lot. This story builds to its shocking ending with such slow methodicalness that it almost does not take you by surprise, it seems so inevitable. Be advised that fingernails should be allowed to grow long, the reader will need something to gnaw on.
Rating: 4
Summary: Disturbing
Comment: Nazareth Hill is without a doubt one of Campbell's finest works. The story is very well written and keeps the reader interested despite some moments that drag. The overall story makes you ignore the slow moments simply because the reader want's to find out what happens next.
Now i should warn most of the horror fan's like myself out there that this really is not a typical haunted house story. When some of the events that take place in the book happen they will downright bother you, i sure know they bothered me a great deal. This is not for the faint of heart and the way this book ends will not please a great many people.
I recommend this book to any horror fan out there simply because you probably won't read anything similar out there with the exception of King's The Shining, but even saying that King's novel doesn't hold a candle to the outright brutality that takes place here. Enjoy....
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Title: A Face at the Window by Dennis McFarland ISBN: 0767901304 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Ghosts by Noel Hynd ISBN: 0786014865 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Revenant by Melanie Tem ISBN: 1585867578 Publisher: eReads.com Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Lower Deep by Tom Piccirilli ISBN: 084394921X Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Haunted Ground by Stephen Gresham ISBN: 0786015373 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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