Re: Cosmic horror by less known authors
Posted by:
GreenFedora (IP Logged)
Date: 25 November, 2020 01:24PM
Knygatin Wrote:
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> Knygatin Wrote:
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> > I have finally read a story by L. A. Lewis,
> > "The Child".
> > I have read a few other ghost stories concerning
> > dead children, and have not been very enthusiastic
> > about them, because they are mostly tragic more
> > than anything else to my senses. This includes
> > "The Child", although it has also a horrifying
> > conclusion of a distanced primal perspective.
> Perhaps Ramsey Campbell's The Doll Who Ate His
> Mother is related in perspective? Has anyone here
> read that book, and can recommend it?
I have read The Doll Who Ate His Mother and thought it very good, even for a first novel. As far as being related to the subject at hand, however, it is not a dead child/ghost story, or even a horror story per se, except in the broadest sense. It is more of a suspense-plus-psychological portrait of a serial killer. I liked it at any rate, for whatever that's worth.