The Influence
by Ramsey Campbell
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Now a major Netflix movie. "This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another." Publishers Weekly Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death can't break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. She's buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowan's hair, and soon afterwards Rowan is befriended by a mysterious uncannily intelligent girl of her own show more age. Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her. if the child who takes her place in the family isn't Rowan, Rowan may be somewhere else not quite like our world... FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. show lessTags
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This is quiet horror at its best! Contains some very well-written transcendental scenes of dreamlike quality. Highly recommended!!
La tÃa abuela de la pequeña Rowan ha fallecido... ¿o no? La vieja Queenie se niega a desaparecer en el olvido, y hace todo lo que está en su frÃa mano para volver de la tumba. Persigue a la niña en sus pesadillas nocturnas y codicia su alma, trata de empujarla hacia una eternidad oscura, hacia la nada. Rowan se aferra a la normalidad con todas sus fuerzas, pero tal vez la voluntad de una niña pequeña no sea suficiente para resistir la terrible influencia de la meléfica Queenie.
Mar 30, 2023Spanish
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Author Information
315+ Works 9,829 Members
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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- Canonical title
- The Influence
- Original publication date
- 1988
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- Popularity
- 116,459
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.18)
- Languages
- 5 — English, French, German, Polish, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 18
- ASINs
- 9
