Incarnate
by Ramsey Campbell
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An experiment in prophetic dreaming begins to go wrong and is immediately aborted. Many years later hallucinations invade the lives of the original participants and one by one they succumb to a diabolical force that threatens more than their lives. The author has won many horror-fiction awards.Tags
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This is a brilliant horror novel, one of Campbell's best. It's a chilling story about the quality of dreams and hallucinations, and it explores the idea of "unreliable reality" to great effect, in a way that Philip K. Dick would've admired. As with most of Campbell's novel-length work, it's a slow-burn story, building a sense of creeping dread and unease throughout, increasing incrementally until it reaches its conclusion. Highly recommended.
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John Ramsey Campbell was born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool, England. He is a horror fiction author and editor. At the age of 11 he wrote a collection called Ghostly Tales which was published as a special issue of Crypt of Cthulhu magazine titled- Ghostly Tales- Crypt of Cthulhu 6. He continued to write and later published his collection called The show more Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants. At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester. The invented locale of Brichester was deeply influenced by Campbell's native Liverpool, and much of his later work is set in the real locales of Liverpool. In particular, his 2005 novel Secret Stories both exemplifies and satirizes Liverpoolian speech, characters and humor. John Campbell's titles include The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The One Safe Place , The Seven Days of Cain and The Last Revelation of Gla'aki. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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