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Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death by Ramsey Campbell
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Ramsey Campbell Introduction: Clive Barker Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2003-08-01 ISBN: 0765306050 Number of pages: 240 Publisher: Tor Books
Book Reviews of Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and DeathBook Review: Not Free SF Reader Summary: 4 StarsA short selection of Campbell's story wherein he is dealing more explicitly with
sexuality, from the disturbed and the alone kind, to the volunteer for group ritual with bad end variety. They are pretty decent, overall, with a 3.45 average.
Scared Stiff : Dolls - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : The Other Woman - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : Lilith's - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : The Seductress - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : Stages - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : Loveman's Comeback - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : Merry May - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : The Limits of Fantasy - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : The Body in the Window - Ramsey Campbell
Scared Stiff : Kill Me Hideously - Ramsey Campbell
Coven lubrication.
3 out of 5
Throat art.
3.5 out of 5
Artificial Love Mate.
3 out of 5
Must satisfy.
3.5 out of 5
It's a trip to not do it by myself.
3.5 out of 5
Sexual summoning.
4 out of 5
Ritual ending.
4 out of 5
New scenes.
3 out of 5
Spin show recognition.
3.5 out of 5
Like to be a victim, please.
3.5 out of 5
Summary of Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and DeathRamsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers Weekly calls Campbell "a horror writer's horror writer," adding, "His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed." The Cleveland Plain Dealer says his horror fiction is "of consistently high quality," and The Washington Post praises Campbell for continuing "to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries."
The original publication of Scared Stiff almost created the sub-genre of erotic horror. Never had sex and death been so mesmerizingly entwined. Clive Barker, in his Introduction, says, "One of the delightfully unsettling things about these tales is the way Ramsey's brooding, utterly unique vision renders an act so familiar to us all so fretful, so strange, so chilling. Sex . . . is the perfect stuff for the horror writer, and there can be few artists working in the genre as capable of analyzing and dramatizing [this] as Campbell."
For this edition, Campbell has added three new stories which have never before appeared in book form.
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