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By the Light of My Skull
Before I could prevent myself I jerked up the flashlight beam. What did I see? Not much for long, but far too much. The hands belonged to a shape that occupied all the space on a solitary dilapidated chair. Like the hands, the shape appeared to owe its substance to the grime that was everywhere in the dark. Perhaps the soft insidious sound I heard was demonstrating how restless that substance was, but I had the awful idea that it could be an attempt to breathe. I just had time to glimpse a face―eyes as black and unstable as the rest of the lopsided bulk, nostrils desperately dilating, lips that sagged into a helpless grimace and then struggled to produce another expression if not to speak―before the figure collapsed…
By the Light of My Skull collects many of Ramsey Campbell’s recent tales of supernatural horror and psychological disintegration, and finds disquiet in the most familiar places. A game of Bingo and its calls conceal a dark secret, and the number-plates of cars convey a monstrous message. A headphone commentary guides a visitor to a stately home deep into terror, and the remains of a funfair are unearthed, awakening much worse. A fairy tale is retold for our time – both grim and Grimm – and a page from a book turns into a tribute to one of the greatest creators of fantasy. A search on a beach brings an uncannily unwelcome helper, and a return to a childhood memory rouses a nightmare. The power of the first great horror film refuses to stay on the screen, and even a Beatles tour contains the seeds of madness. The classically spectral is roused by brass rubbing, and Halloween is celebrated by an apparition. A bird hide conceals an increasingly sinister watcher, and a communication from the dead letter office leads to the restless dead. The passwords we all need these days may work on our nerves, but here they’re the source of worse than panic.
The book is illustrated by the award-winning artist J. K. Potter, whose surreal images perfectly complement the nightmares in the prose.
By the Light of My Skull collects many of Ramsey Campbell’s recent tales of supernatural horror and psychological disintegration, and finds disquiet in the most familiar places. A game of Bingo and its calls conceal a dark secret, and the number-plates of cars convey a monstrous message. A headphone commentary guides a visitor to a stately home deep into terror, and the remains of a funfair are unearthed, awakening much worse. A fairy tale is retold for our time – both grim and Grimm – and a page from a book turns into a tribute to one of the greatest creators of fantasy. A search on a beach brings an uncannily unwelcome helper, and a return to a childhood memory rouses a nightmare. The power of the first great horror film refuses to stay on the screen, and even a Beatles tour contains the seeds of madness. The classically spectral is roused by brass rubbing, and Halloween is celebrated by an apparition. A bird hide conceals an increasingly sinister watcher, and a communication from the dead letter office leads to the restless dead. The passwords we all need these days may work on our nerves, but here they’re the source of worse than panic.
The book is illustrated by the award-winning artist J. K. Potter, whose surreal images perfectly complement the nightmares in the prose.
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300 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2018
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Ramsey Campbell
857 books1,591 followersRamsey Campbell is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today," while S. T. Joshi has said that "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."
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January 22, 2019
Reading a collection of Ramsey Campbell's short stories instantly conjures the spirits of M.R. James and Lovecraft. Wherever they reside now, they must be nodding their approval. The author is, deservedly, a legend of the genre. By The Light of My Skull brings together an eclectic gathering of the disquiet, the troubled, the bereaved, the haunted and the tortured. Among my favourites, At Lorn Hall takes us into a once grand house, now sadly falling apart but filled with the art of its late owner. The visitor dons an audioguide but it doesn't behave like any audioguide I have ever used, more a personal tour, but one designed to unnerve and, eventually, terrify. Know Your Code takes us, uneasily, into the world of creeping old age and increasing senility - or is that what it is... really? In Reading the Signs, a strangely mismatched man and boy lead Vernon, the main character, on a journey he would have been well advised to avoid. If only he'd read the signs! These are just three of the fifteen gems in this collection. Providing a master class in the art of short story telling combined with a way with words that leaves your imagination free to take over and run riot with your senses, By The Light of My Skull is a delight for lovers of horror, Ramsey Campbell and great entertainment
December 5, 2018
Campbell is in absolute topform in this collection. If you love horror in short form, this is an absolute must read!
July 16, 2019
By the Light of My Skull is Ramsey Campbell’s newest short story collection. I always love reading Ramsey’s horror tales and this collection continues on his tradition of excellence. If forced to chose my favorites from this book, I’d pick “The Moons”, “At Lorn Hall”, Reading the Signs”, “The Wrong Game” and “Fun of the Fair”.
THE STORIES:
“Find My Name” (2013) - A grandmother starts to hear a strange voice through the baby monitor saying ominous things about coming to take her grandson who she’s raising following the death of her daughter. She begins to suspect her daughter made a deal with a malignant entity to save her son for a period of one year. That time is nearly up. This is a modern, darker variation on the Rumplestiltskin fairy tail.
“The Moons” (2011) - A teenage boy finds himself lost in a forested area near a beach after his mother forces him to go hang out with a family of kids nearby. He feels he doesn’t fit in with them but gains the trust of their youngest sister when he convinces everyone to go to the beach to help find her bracelet which is made up of pendants shaped like the phases of the moon. There, they encounter a strange man who offers to help them find their way home, but the boy begins to suspect he isn’t what he seems. This is another strong tale of cosmic horror by Ramsey.
"At Lorn Hall" (2012) - To escape a thunderstorm, a man enters a rundown manor house. Inside, he finds a set of headphones and embarks on tour of the house "guided" by the recorded voice of the house’s old master whose image appears in portraits hanging in every room. His comments are eerie, and he thinks there may be someone else in the house with him staying constantly just out of view. This has become one of my all time favorite horror tales. It has great atmosphere and keeps you unsettled throughout.
“On the Tour” (2014) - Stu was the drummer of a band called Stu and the Scousers that played around the same time as The Beatles. Now working at a vinyl shop, he spends his time telling everyone of his glory days. He quickly becomes obsessed with a tour bus that passes his house, at first reveling in what they say about him, then becoming increasingly convinced they’re mocking him. Slowly, his mind begins to become unhinged by it.
"The Callers" (2012) - A thirteen year old boy, staying with his grandparents, discovers his grandmother’s game of Bingo is a part of something much darker.
“Fetched” (2016) - Her husband’s obsession with seeing the view of an area from his childhood again leads his wife on a frantic search for him through a long neighbor of bungalows and interconnected high fences which block it from sight. The peculiar people they encounter who live in the neighborhood are all aggressively suspicious of them.
“The Impression” (2014) - A boy makes a rubbing impression over a tomb that has the upturned face of Lord Ranulph Perlston engraved upon it. It seems Perlston was not a pleasant person in life, likely having killed several of his sons. An uneasy feeling follows his rubbing as he begins to see covered faces everywhere. Has Lord Perlston specter been summoned by the act?
“The Page” (2012) - Written as a tribute to Ray Bradbury, this story follows an older man named Ewan Hargreaveson who while on vacation with his wife notices a man on the beach struggling to retrieve a page torn free of a book, caught on the wind. Ewan becomes fixated on finding the page and returning it to its owner.
“Reading The Signs” (2013) – A man driving alone picks up another man walking down the street with a young boy perched on his shoulders. The hitchhiker says his car broke down and that they need a lift. He’s surly and seems to dislike the boy with him. To pass the time, the three of them play a disturbing game in which they make up brief sayings that start with the three letters seen on the license plates of the cars they spot along the way. The man who picked them up starts to worry he may have made a dreadful mistake the longer he spends with them. This is another masterfully eerie tale by Ramsey.
“Know Your Code” (2016) - An elderly couple struggle with their failing memory and how to keep track of all the codes and passwords society demands today.
"The Watched" by Ramsey Campbell (2014) - A twelve year old boy is convinced by a disheveled, obsessive cop to help him catch his criminal next door neighbors. The police officer uses something called a "hide" which lets him spy on the houses without being noticed, but the boy is aware of it and can see it from his house. Things take a tragic turn when the cop dies after the boy mistakenly alerts him that something is going down. Afterward, the boy keeps seeing signs that someone, or something, is still inhabiting the hide.
“The Wrong Game” by Ramsey Campbell (2015) - In this novelette, Ramsey uses himself as the main character. It’s presented as a letter he’s written to the actual editor of the Dead Letters anthology where the story originally appeared. He starts off saying he isn’t sure if he has a story to submit but relates something that recently happened to him which may spark something. He tells how he received a parcel in the mail that contained a pair of playing cards. Further research into it brings back the suppressed memory of a strange man he met at a convention many years ago. The man, who called himself Malleson, was rather obnoxious as he cleared out the table where he was playing cards with his uncanny luck. It seems, Malleson has sent these cards to Ramsey long after he used them to give him a reading that day at the convention. Looking more into it takes Ramsey to the old abandoned hotel that housed that convention. This is another superbly creepy story by Mr. Campbell.
“Her Face” (2015) - A young boy is sent by his mother to help out a woman named June who has taken over running her family store following the recent death of her mother. It’s close to Halloween, so there are several creepy masks in the front window that sometimes seem to move on there own. June seems unnerved in the place and somewhat frightened to be alone there as she deals with not having her domineering mother around to rule things anymore. This is a creepy Halloween tale that incorporates the eerieness inherent in masks well.
“The Words Between” (2016) - An aging man returns to college and enrolls in a class on film studies. He finds himself fixated on the old, silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The world around him begins to grow hazy in his mind as words, names and phrases from the movie start poping up everywhere.
“Fun of the Fair” (2018) - A widow who’s struggling with the loss of her husband uncovers a wooden horse head while digging in her garden and learns that the neighborhood where her house is in was once the site of a disreputable fair run by an aggressive carnival barker who came to terrible demise - but is he actually still gone? Another great one by Ramsey.
THE STORIES:
“Find My Name” (2013) - A grandmother starts to hear a strange voice through the baby monitor saying ominous things about coming to take her grandson who she’s raising following the death of her daughter. She begins to suspect her daughter made a deal with a malignant entity to save her son for a period of one year. That time is nearly up. This is a modern, darker variation on the Rumplestiltskin fairy tail.
“The Moons” (2011) - A teenage boy finds himself lost in a forested area near a beach after his mother forces him to go hang out with a family of kids nearby. He feels he doesn’t fit in with them but gains the trust of their youngest sister when he convinces everyone to go to the beach to help find her bracelet which is made up of pendants shaped like the phases of the moon. There, they encounter a strange man who offers to help them find their way home, but the boy begins to suspect he isn’t what he seems. This is another strong tale of cosmic horror by Ramsey.
"At Lorn Hall" (2012) - To escape a thunderstorm, a man enters a rundown manor house. Inside, he finds a set of headphones and embarks on tour of the house "guided" by the recorded voice of the house’s old master whose image appears in portraits hanging in every room. His comments are eerie, and he thinks there may be someone else in the house with him staying constantly just out of view. This has become one of my all time favorite horror tales. It has great atmosphere and keeps you unsettled throughout.
“On the Tour” (2014) - Stu was the drummer of a band called Stu and the Scousers that played around the same time as The Beatles. Now working at a vinyl shop, he spends his time telling everyone of his glory days. He quickly becomes obsessed with a tour bus that passes his house, at first reveling in what they say about him, then becoming increasingly convinced they’re mocking him. Slowly, his mind begins to become unhinged by it.
"The Callers" (2012) - A thirteen year old boy, staying with his grandparents, discovers his grandmother’s game of Bingo is a part of something much darker.
“Fetched” (2016) - Her husband’s obsession with seeing the view of an area from his childhood again leads his wife on a frantic search for him through a long neighbor of bungalows and interconnected high fences which block it from sight. The peculiar people they encounter who live in the neighborhood are all aggressively suspicious of them.
“The Impression” (2014) - A boy makes a rubbing impression over a tomb that has the upturned face of Lord Ranulph Perlston engraved upon it. It seems Perlston was not a pleasant person in life, likely having killed several of his sons. An uneasy feeling follows his rubbing as he begins to see covered faces everywhere. Has Lord Perlston specter been summoned by the act?
“The Page” (2012) - Written as a tribute to Ray Bradbury, this story follows an older man named Ewan Hargreaveson who while on vacation with his wife notices a man on the beach struggling to retrieve a page torn free of a book, caught on the wind. Ewan becomes fixated on finding the page and returning it to its owner.
“Reading The Signs” (2013) – A man driving alone picks up another man walking down the street with a young boy perched on his shoulders. The hitchhiker says his car broke down and that they need a lift. He’s surly and seems to dislike the boy with him. To pass the time, the three of them play a disturbing game in which they make up brief sayings that start with the three letters seen on the license plates of the cars they spot along the way. The man who picked them up starts to worry he may have made a dreadful mistake the longer he spends with them. This is another masterfully eerie tale by Ramsey.
“Know Your Code” (2016) - An elderly couple struggle with their failing memory and how to keep track of all the codes and passwords society demands today.
"The Watched" by Ramsey Campbell (2014) - A twelve year old boy is convinced by a disheveled, obsessive cop to help him catch his criminal next door neighbors. The police officer uses something called a "hide" which lets him spy on the houses without being noticed, but the boy is aware of it and can see it from his house. Things take a tragic turn when the cop dies after the boy mistakenly alerts him that something is going down. Afterward, the boy keeps seeing signs that someone, or something, is still inhabiting the hide.
“The Wrong Game” by Ramsey Campbell (2015) - In this novelette, Ramsey uses himself as the main character. It’s presented as a letter he’s written to the actual editor of the Dead Letters anthology where the story originally appeared. He starts off saying he isn’t sure if he has a story to submit but relates something that recently happened to him which may spark something. He tells how he received a parcel in the mail that contained a pair of playing cards. Further research into it brings back the suppressed memory of a strange man he met at a convention many years ago. The man, who called himself Malleson, was rather obnoxious as he cleared out the table where he was playing cards with his uncanny luck. It seems, Malleson has sent these cards to Ramsey long after he used them to give him a reading that day at the convention. Looking more into it takes Ramsey to the old abandoned hotel that housed that convention. This is another superbly creepy story by Mr. Campbell.
“Her Face” (2015) - A young boy is sent by his mother to help out a woman named June who has taken over running her family store following the recent death of her mother. It’s close to Halloween, so there are several creepy masks in the front window that sometimes seem to move on there own. June seems unnerved in the place and somewhat frightened to be alone there as she deals with not having her domineering mother around to rule things anymore. This is a creepy Halloween tale that incorporates the eerieness inherent in masks well.
“The Words Between” (2016) - An aging man returns to college and enrolls in a class on film studies. He finds himself fixated on the old, silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The world around him begins to grow hazy in his mind as words, names and phrases from the movie start poping up everywhere.
“Fun of the Fair” (2018) - A widow who’s struggling with the loss of her husband uncovers a wooden horse head while digging in her garden and learns that the neighborhood where her house is in was once the site of a disreputable fair run by an aggressive carnival barker who came to terrible demise - but is he actually still gone? Another great one by Ramsey.
February 23, 2021
This is the most recent short fiction collection by Ramsey Campbell and it features his usual styles and themes. Alienated, cast out and reclusive protagonists face their hidden fears and dangers that appear on the margins of these stories. My favourites were ‘The Moons’ and ‘Fetched’. Truly top tier stories.
As usual I’ve put my personal ratings below for my own reference
- Find My Name (7)
- The Moons (9)
- At Lorn Hall (7)
- On The Tours (5)
- The Callers (6)
- Fetched (8)
- The Impression (7)
- The Page (7)
- Reading The Signs (7)
- Know Your Code (8)
- The Watched (6)
- The Wrong Game (6)
- Her Face (8)
- The Words Between (7)
- The Fun of the Fair (8)
As usual I’ve put my personal ratings below for my own reference
- Find My Name (7)
- The Moons (9)
- At Lorn Hall (7)
- On The Tours (5)
- The Callers (6)
- Fetched (8)
- The Impression (7)
- The Page (7)
- Reading The Signs (7)
- Know Your Code (8)
- The Watched (6)
- The Wrong Game (6)
- Her Face (8)
- The Words Between (7)
- The Fun of the Fair (8)
January 15, 2019
"By the Light of My Skull collects many of Ramsey Campbell's recent tales of supernatural horror and psychological disintegration, and finds disquiet in the most familiar places."
I so enjoyed this collection by Ramsey Campbell. These stories are my favorite kind of horror, subtle and unnerving, where things are alluded to but not necessarily seen head on.
In Find my Name, we follow a grandmother, Doreen, trying to protect her grandson from an odd man, whose name and image keep slipping her memory. Her abused daughter has made a deal to protect herself and her son, a deal that has gone wrong and now it is up to Doreen to salvage what she can before it's too late.
The Moons finds Stuart, a thirteen year old boy, reluctantly joining some neighborhood kids for a trek to the beach. They run into some trouble there and a kindly park ranger directs them to a shortcut through the woods that will get them home sooner. Once in the woods, they find themselves turned around, covering the same ground over and over. I loved the imagery in this story!
In The Impression, a grandmother shows her grandson Alan how to use paper and wax to do rubbings in an old cemetery. He chooses to use the resting place of Lord Perlston to do his. Lord Perlston had several sons by several ladies. None measured up and all met with accidents that nobody was anxious to examine too closely. Alan soon becomes obsessed with his rubbing and seeing things that can't possibly be there. Can they?
My absolutely favorite story is At Lorn Hall. Randolph stops to wait out the rain and spies a dilapidated sign leading him to the equally dilapidated and ominous Lorn Hall. There is only one other car parked out front but he decides to visit anyway. He picks up a set of headphones to do a self guided tour, even though the interior is dark and filthy. He imagines what his ex-wife would say as he tours the increasingly dirty and disturbing rooms and uses it as a goad to continue. The commentary is apparently delivered by the late (?) Lord Crowcross. When Randolph tries the door to the basement his guide says "Nothing of interest is kept down there. I never understood it's appeal for my late father." No matter how hard he tries the knob will not turn. As he continues his tour upstairs, Randolph never sees another guest and shrugs this off, not realizing he's now alone. When he steps into one of the bedrooms his guide says "Here you can see the suite of the last Lady Crowcross. I fear that the ways of our family were not to her taste." I will leave the story here. The sense of place and the building feeling of foreboding were spot on and very well done.
I really enjoyed every story in this collection and that does not happen often. I also want to mention the artwork by J.K. Potter, eerie, surreal and perfectly suited to the stories. Thank you PS Publishing for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review.
I so enjoyed this collection by Ramsey Campbell. These stories are my favorite kind of horror, subtle and unnerving, where things are alluded to but not necessarily seen head on.
In Find my Name, we follow a grandmother, Doreen, trying to protect her grandson from an odd man, whose name and image keep slipping her memory. Her abused daughter has made a deal to protect herself and her son, a deal that has gone wrong and now it is up to Doreen to salvage what she can before it's too late.
The Moons finds Stuart, a thirteen year old boy, reluctantly joining some neighborhood kids for a trek to the beach. They run into some trouble there and a kindly park ranger directs them to a shortcut through the woods that will get them home sooner. Once in the woods, they find themselves turned around, covering the same ground over and over. I loved the imagery in this story!
In The Impression, a grandmother shows her grandson Alan how to use paper and wax to do rubbings in an old cemetery. He chooses to use the resting place of Lord Perlston to do his. Lord Perlston had several sons by several ladies. None measured up and all met with accidents that nobody was anxious to examine too closely. Alan soon becomes obsessed with his rubbing and seeing things that can't possibly be there. Can they?
My absolutely favorite story is At Lorn Hall. Randolph stops to wait out the rain and spies a dilapidated sign leading him to the equally dilapidated and ominous Lorn Hall. There is only one other car parked out front but he decides to visit anyway. He picks up a set of headphones to do a self guided tour, even though the interior is dark and filthy. He imagines what his ex-wife would say as he tours the increasingly dirty and disturbing rooms and uses it as a goad to continue. The commentary is apparently delivered by the late (?) Lord Crowcross. When Randolph tries the door to the basement his guide says "Nothing of interest is kept down there. I never understood it's appeal for my late father." No matter how hard he tries the knob will not turn. As he continues his tour upstairs, Randolph never sees another guest and shrugs this off, not realizing he's now alone. When he steps into one of the bedrooms his guide says "Here you can see the suite of the last Lady Crowcross. I fear that the ways of our family were not to her taste." I will leave the story here. The sense of place and the building feeling of foreboding were spot on and very well done.
I really enjoyed every story in this collection and that does not happen often. I also want to mention the artwork by J.K. Potter, eerie, surreal and perfectly suited to the stories. Thank you PS Publishing for sending me this book in exchange for an honest review.
November 27, 2023
Another sterling collection from arguably the most consistently great writer in the history of horror fiction. From the ambitiously literary "The Moons" to the indie-short-film-esque "Reading the Signs", Campbell's range pushes the genre into many new kinds of unsettling shapes. "The Wrong Game" is a tour de force of evocative prose -- you'll feel grubby after reading it. There's a tale spiritually related to one of the author's classics from yesteryear -- "The Fun of the Fair" develops unused material from "The Companion" -- and be prepared to be menaced by the weirdest bunch of bingo fanatics you're ever likely to meet (yes, I did say bingo fanatics -- who else but Campbell could make such a group terrifying?). All told, it's a strikingly rich book and another periodic testament to his unfailing ability to wriggle all the way into our heads.
March 6, 2019
Some good stories, some pretty derivative. A good read for gloomy days. The editor really dropped the ball, some pretty glaring errors that really took me right out of the moment.
April 12, 2020
A really great collection of Ramsey Campbell short stories. It comes highly recommanded by me.
June 13, 2025
Mis favoritos:
-Fun of the fair
-Know your code
-Find my name
-Fun of the fair
-Know your code
-Find my name
April 24, 2025
The light of Campbell's skull certainly had begun to dim with the arrival of this collection. It's all too obvious that, being unable to conjure the atmospheric wizardry of his essential short fiction produced during the seventies through the nineties, he gradually started to -- and still does -- rely on mere cleverness of concept and plot to compensate for the lack of profoundly evoked dread that was the trademark of his prime period.
Being one of the more memorable stories here, the uniquely conceived, virtual tour guide-inspired "At Lorn Hall" flickers with the sardonic flames of well-blended humor and horror though not so much as in earlier works such as the deeply disorienting mind-melt of "End of the Line" and the hilariously insensitive interpersonal dysfunction of "McGonagall in the Head", both of which respectively appeared in his far superior collections, Alone with the Horrors and Ghosts & Gristly Things.
Perhaps the decline of Campbell's powers, at least in short form, is never more clear here than in the Caligari-themed "The Words Between" which only palely recalls the sort of reality-bending horror that Campbell had regularly produced throughout his peak decades; the difference has much to do with a considerably decreased control of the rich psychological and sensory details that he had used to create such effective portraits of personal disintegration, replaced by an excessive reliance on overworked concepts and desperate plotting.
Well, at least Adam L.G. Nevill seems to be prepared to fill Campbell's soon-to-be empty shoes.
Being one of the more memorable stories here, the uniquely conceived, virtual tour guide-inspired "At Lorn Hall" flickers with the sardonic flames of well-blended humor and horror though not so much as in earlier works such as the deeply disorienting mind-melt of "End of the Line" and the hilariously insensitive interpersonal dysfunction of "McGonagall in the Head", both of which respectively appeared in his far superior collections, Alone with the Horrors and Ghosts & Gristly Things.
Perhaps the decline of Campbell's powers, at least in short form, is never more clear here than in the Caligari-themed "The Words Between" which only palely recalls the sort of reality-bending horror that Campbell had regularly produced throughout his peak decades; the difference has much to do with a considerably decreased control of the rich psychological and sensory details that he had used to create such effective portraits of personal disintegration, replaced by an excessive reliance on overworked concepts and desperate plotting.
Well, at least Adam L.G. Nevill seems to be prepared to fill Campbell's soon-to-be empty shoes.
November 27, 2023
Another sterling collection from arguably the most consistently great writer in the history of horror fiction. From the ambitiously literary "The Moons" to the indie-short-film-esque "Reading the Signs", Campbell's range pushes the genre into many new kinds of unsettling shapes. "The Wrong Game" is a tour de force of evocative prose -- you'll feel grubby after reading it. There's a tale spiritually related to one of the author's classics from yesteryear -- "The Fun of the Fair" develops unused material from "The Companion" -- and be prepared to be menaced by the weirdest bunch of bingo fanatics you're ever likely to meet (yes, I did say bingo fanatics -- who else but Campbell could make such a group terrifying?). All told, it's a strikingly rich book and another periodic testament to his unfailing ability to wriggle all the way into our heads.
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