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Los cerca de sesenta relatos de horror que escribió H.P. Lovecraft en su corta vida le dieron una nueva dimensión a la literatura de terror, que ya no sería la misma después de él. Lovecraft logró trascender el horror puramente humano de diablos, brujas y vampiros e intuyó una realidad oculta, cósmica, terrorífica, y apenas descriptible: imaginó un espantoso panteón de deidades, los "Primordiales" o "Grandes Antiguos", con el dios ciego e idiota Azatoth a la cabeza ("una ruina amorfa de absoluta confusión que blasfema y babea en el centro del infinito"), Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep - el caos reptante -, Cthulhu - el morador de las profundidades acuáticas -, y una alucinantecaterva de alimañas descarnadas, demacrados nocturnos, entidades sobrehumanas que pueblan un Cosmos amoral, despiadado e indiferente al insignificante destino del hombre: el horror abarcaba todo el Universo, visible e invisible.Poco a poco, amigos y escritores afines fueron agregando deidades y sistematizando esta espeluznante cáfila, conocida como LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU: Clark Asthon Smith, escritor californiano amigo de Lovecraft, incluyó a Tsathoggua y a Attach-Nacha; Frank Belknap Long a los Perros de Tíndalos; Henry Kuttner a Nygotha, Derleth a Cthugha, etc.La presente selección, "Nuevos cuentos de los mitos de Cthulhu", incluye las aportaciones hechas a los "mitos" por una segunda generación de escritores de terror, entre los que se encuentran Ramsey Campbell, responsable de la antología, Brian Lumley, Stephen King, además del propio Lovecraft y Frank Belknap Long.Son cuentos, los aquí recopilados, en los que se percibe claramente la definición más querida por Lovecraft de los mitos: un resplandor de algo tan inmenso como pueda describirse, aun siendo de origen desconocido", como explica Campbell en el prólogo a esta edición.

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Hailed by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as "Britain's most respected living horror writer, " Ramsey Campbell has authored an astounding body of work for over half a century that embodies the weird, the supernatural, and the subtle, much of which is widely considered classics of dark fiction today. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including being made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to his work, the sixth in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover-or learn more of-the remarkable voice of Ramsey Campbell, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich. Included within these pages are: Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book Author interview Biography and bibliography Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (former humanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University) . and more!  Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Get to know Ramsey Campbell. Table of Contents includes: . Introduction by Eric J. Guignard. About Ramsey Campbell (A Biography). The Place of Revelation. The Place of Revelation: A Commentary. The Companion. The Companion: A Commentary. The Alternative. The Alternative: A Commentary. One Copy Only. One Copy Only: A Commentary. Recently Used. Recently Used: A Commentary. The Bill. The Bill: A Commentary. Why Ramsey Campbell Matters by Michael Arnzen, PhD. In Conversation with Ramsey Campbell. My Roots Exhumed: An Essay by Ramsey Campbell. A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Ramsey Campbell

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #6: A Primer to Ramsey Campbell - Exploring Dark Short Fiction, #6

AN ANTHOLOGY edited by Stephen Jones & Ramsey CampbellCATEGORY HorrorPUBLICATION DATE  September 2014COVER ILLUSTRATION Lee EliasCOVER DESIGN Smith & Jones A 25th Anniversary edition of the longest running anthology series of the very best in horror fiction. Introduction: Horror in 1989 - The EditorsPin - Robert R. McCammonThe House on Cemetery Street - Cherry WilderThe Horn - Stephen GallagherBreaking Up - Alex QuirobaIt Helps if You Sing - Ramsey CampbellClosed Circuit - Laurence StaigCarnal House - Steve Rasnic TemTwitch Technicolor - Kim NewmanLizaveta - Gregory FrostSnow Cancellations - Donald R. BurlesonArchway - Nicholas RoyleThe Strange Design of Master Rignolo - Thomas Ligotti.

Best New Horror - 25th Anniversary Edition - Best New Horror, #1

Digital magazine featuring the very best in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and HorrorThe latest fiction from established writers alongside the best new stories from emerging talents and debut authors. On-point articles and regular columns, exploring genre fiction in all its forms. Interviews with leading authors and artists. Insightful and informative book reviews by a carefully selected cadre of reviewers, assessing current titles and imminent releases from publishers big and small. This is the table of contents for the festive issue. Introduction - Ian WhatesThe Summer Husband - Angela SlatterThe Neighbourhood Watch -Neil WilliamsonLovers on the Yuleton Lip - Aliya WhiteleyBut Once a Year - Ramsey CampbellPoruguese Essay - George TomAll That's Red Earth - Mike CareyFive Ways to Accidentally Save the Earth from Alien Conquest - Gareth D. JonesThe Elektron Mill - Sean McMullenA Bayesian Analysis of Wishes - Karen BrenchleyLife in the Fast Lane - featuring Jenny CampbellIn the Weeds - Anne C. Perry & Jared ShurinStepping Towards New Voices in SFF - Stewart HotstonReviews SectionInterview with Xueting Christine Ni

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For the first time ever, Red Room Press brings you their infamous THINGS anthologies in one terrifying trio, featuring authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Graham Masterton, Tim Curran, John Shirley, Simon Wood, Fred Venturini and many more. Three anthologies in one, with 700 pages and 42 stories, including the newest book in the series, STIFF THINGS!VILE THINGS: EXTREME DEVIATIONS OF HORROR -- the ultimate collection of extreme horror from award-winning masters and up-and-coming authors of macabre fiction. SICK THINGS: EXTREME CREATURE HORROR -- a disturbing collection of extreme creature horror with 17 deviant and gore-soaked stories featuring demons, cannibals, mutants, golems, werewolves, and many more vile creatures, monsters, and beasts. STIFF THINGS: THE SPLATTERP0RN ANTHOLOGY-- ratchets up the er0ticism and visceral intensity with twisted hardcore stories that penetrate new depths of psychosexual horror. Not for the squeamish or prudish. Don't get any on you. EDITORIAL REVIEWS"This book is a definite for any extreme horror fan. Full of terror, sex, and gore, I don't recommend this for the faint of heart or for a light read at a beauty salon." --FANGORIA (on Vile Things)"But dismembered members aside, there are no cheap gross-outs here; even though the focus is clearly on the vile and unpalatable these don't feel like stories that were written with the sole purpose of being labeled 'extreme horror' or to merely revel in their graphic, gory descriptions. Simply put, VILE THINGS is every deviant horror fan's wet dream." --RUE MORGUE"VILE THINGS is one of the stronger horror anthologies I have come across in some time, its theme literally appears to be centered around creatures, topics, or situations that are so vile it would send a shiver down your spine. It includes stories from both established and newer horror authors, and some of the stories are more extreme than the usual fare."--MONSTER LIBRARIAN"Cover every orifice. Comet Press' new collection is making a beeline for the soft contents of your body--and it doesn't care one bit where it makes its grand entrance, orbital sockets or otherwise. Rest assured this violation will be painful, given the tight confinements of our fallible frames of flesh-but anything less than a full-on ass-rape would probably seem insufficient in the eyes of editrix Cheryl Mullenax.Mullenax has assembled a rogue's gallery of intelligent grotesqueries that will temper one's appetite hours after closing the book." --FANGORIA (on Sick Things)"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this Anthology. Like I said in the beginning, no story fell short for me. Everyone brought an er0tic taste that stimulated every sense of my being. I highly recommend this book who love some deranged er0tic horror." -- SPLATTER CAFE (on Stiff Things)

Stiff, Sick and Vile Things Box Set - Three Complete Anthologies in the THINGS Series

Heh, Heh, Kiddies! They say that you can always tell a GOOD BOOK by its COVER! Well, after you BONE UP on the front of this first BEST OF volume of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY by legendary artist NORMAN SAUNDERS, you ll be left SPELLBOUND by some of the most SIZZLING fiction ever published in this AWARD-WINNING series. Between these covers are DEVILISHLY GOOD STORIES by RAMSEY CAMPBELL, HARLAN ELLISON, CHRISTOPHER FOWLER, NEIL GAIMAN, CAITLIN R. KIERNAN, TERRY LAMSLEY, BRIAN LUMLEY, PAUL J. McAULEY, MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH and PETER STRAUB. So, what are you WAITING for? Open up this HELLISH TOME and START READING! Because a cover NEVER lies, and neither does .

The Best of Best New Horror - The Best of Best New Horror, #1

The Long Lost begins with a sequence so haunting and bizarre that it almost seems a chapter out of legend. A witty, sexy married couple who live in urban England drive to the coast of Wales on a weekend holiday. On a lark, they clamber down a steep cliff to a seaside town that turns out to be utterly deserted. There's an island just off shore and the tide is out, so they walk out across the exposed sand. The empty streets and eerie absence of human voices, followed by the overgrown beauty of the island, seem to transport them into another world, another time. They stumble on an ancient stone cottage, where an old woman with long white hair lies motionless on a pallet. At first they take her for dead, but she slowly awakens. She turns out to be a long-lost relative. She offers no explanation for why she lives alone in a nearly empty, crumbling cottage on an uninhabited island next to a deserted village. The tide comes in. The three of them end up spending the night in the dark cottage. The couple take the old woman back to England with them.  Then their lives, and the lives of everyone who knows them, begin slowly and inexorably to fall apart. As Joel Lane writes in the horror review magazine Necrofile, "The Long Lost ... is written in a clear, vivid style which encompasses precise visual descriptions, ambiguous metaphors, and sudden changes of mood. The prose is so attractive that the fundamental strangeness of what is going on takes a long time to sink in; and the ending doesn't so much explain the story as send you away to think about it. The reader is, at various times, entranced, mystified, disturbed, appalled, provoked, and amused. Only twice before--in The Influence and Midnight Sun--has Campbell written at such a pitch of creative intensity." The Long Lost is a dark novel about sin, guilt, scapegoats, and the fragility of the self. It is leavened by black humor, and the distinct, if elusive, possibility of redemption. --Fiona Webster

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