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    The Darkest Part of the Woods

    By Ramsey Campbell

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    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 . . .

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2007
    ISBN9781429910811
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    The Darkest Part of the Woods
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    Ramsey Campbell

    Ramsey Campbell has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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    • 2/5
      Irritating book
    • 3/5
      A novel on one of my favorite horror themes: When Nature Behaves Unnaturally. This one was a pretty good one.

      Campbell builds a sense of unease paired up with ambiguity that amps up almost, but not quite, to the point of dread.

      I don't think it would be a spoiler to say that everything he foreshadows does come to pass. Of course we should be concerned about the baby.....Campbell is practically yelling it to us.

      A great autumnal read. I recommended it to a friend, she took a look at it and declined on the grounds that her house sets back in the woods and she would be too freaked out by it. Hmmmmm, that's never stopped me from reading stories about ornate but decrepit Victorian homes that sell at low prices to hopeful DIY fixer upper/old house geeks.
    • 5/5
      Ramsey Campbell, in this tale of a family made the catspaw of dark forces, has made a Russian doll of a novel - a tale of supernatural forces that causes great spiritual and psychological anguish told in realistic detail in a precise literate style. His penultimate chapter, where the skeptical heroine faces the horror behind the trees, is a fine example of supernatural, psychological, and literary horror brought together.
    • 2/5
      Historically I have found Campbell's work to be rather verbose and unengaging. Since this had received good press I thought I'd revisit his work, alas I still found the prose dense, with swathes of pages which did little to propel the story in any meaningful way. Campbell's approach to horror is similar to John Saul's, where the tension is delivered from character driven fear and the creation of an unseen and affecting malevolence, however The Darkest Part of the Woods produces little of either. It's not compensated by any action either, ultimately producing a novel that has rather little to offer. Clearly there is a market for Campbell's work, however I found very little entertainment within the pages, although I was interested in how finished, suggesting the basic premise has value.