THE HUNGRY MOON
Ramsey Campbell
Publication date: Apr 2019
My Review
I’ve enjoyed some of Ramsey Campbell’s other books. Been dipping my toes into his horror stories for some time. When I read the blurb for The Hungry Moon I was really intrigued.
The story was slow at the start. There are a lot of characters and I couldn’t always tell them apart. But I started to get into it when I learned just what was in the cave and how the Druids had used it to vanquish their enemies a couple of thousand years ago. Some really weird, fun stuff started happening. Ramsey went a little into the out of and I’m always into that.
But this is where the connection to the characters was important. And I just didn’t feel it. If I’d cared about them. things would have been much more scary.
So, to sum things up without including spoilers. I enjoyed some parts and other parts felt lacking.
Would I read more of Ramsey’s books? Yes. This might not have been quite my cuppa tea, but having enjoyed some of his other books, I’d grab another if the synopsis caught my fancy.
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Synopsis
In the town of Moonwell, old rituals are still alive. Right-wing evangelist
Godwin Mann isn’t about to let that continue, so he descends into the pit
where the being who’s been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said
to dwell. What emerges is a demon in Mann’s shape, and only the town’s
outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong.
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Author Ramsey Campbell
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing.
Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more
established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still
lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English
Literature describes him as “Britain’s most respected living
horror writer”. He 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.
In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores
University for outstanding services to literature.
His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain,
where a film of The Influence is in production. He is the President of the
Society of Fantastic Films.
AWARDS:
The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988
Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999
Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, 2007
A Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015
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I haven’t read that many horror novels, but I can see how the need to feel for the characters is very important in the genre. The concept does pique my interest, though. I hope that you enjoy the next book he writes a bit more. 🙂
I wish I could have connected to them but I still had fun with the plot:) And I will read more of his books!
Thanks for supporting the Blog Tour Laura x
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I’ve read some of his earlier fiction, I actually didn’t know he was still writing!
It’s a heck of a cover though!
Yep, it sure is!
Dang Laura! Too bad but I guess they can’t all be winners …
It was okay. Just not enough to wow me:)
It’s a shame this wasn’t a perfect read for you but it’s always good when there’s enough you like in a book to want to read more by the author. I don’t read horror (I’m too much of a scaredy-cat!) but my husband loves it so I’ll mention this book to him.
I’ve read many of his books over the years and I’ll always be happy to read one that I haven’t yet.