![]() ![]() This review has been gestating for a long time. There are more than enough terrors to be found there but such terrors are not all there is to the outside.” I am not here claiming that the outside is always beneficent. This fascination usually involves a certain apprehension, perhaps even dread - but it would be wrong to say that the weird and the eerie are necessarily terrifying. It has, rather, to do with a fascination for the outside, for that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience. “The allure that the weird and the eerie possess is not captured by the idea that we “enjoy what scares us”. His work exemplifies like no other Mark Fisher’s understanding for the pull and attraction of Lovecraftian fiction: Campbell I must pause, take a deep breath, and then, thus braced, I may enter his contribution. He knows how to get under my skin so well that if I am reading an anthology only to discover the next story is by Mr. ![]() ![]() There is one exception to this rule and that exception is named Ramsey Campbell. I have come perilously close to crush depth below the Pacific ocean on a number of occasions, leapt from airplanes and been involved in a number of similarly hare-brained endeavors yet, knock on wood, anxiety free. You may purchase The Searching Dead here. ![]()
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