![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The latter lives in an apartment together with Peter and Cathy, a young couple admittedly based on the author and his wife she’s a sweet and responsible librarian and he a comic book-obsessed, drug-addled asshole. As seen through Horridge’s obsessive gaze, Liverpool is “an enormous square of desolation, surrounded by derelict houses that looked shrunken by waste” where “A sky the color of watered milk glared through the latticework of their stripped roofs.” Such gritty yet hallucinatory prose is a Campbell trademark, and arguably utilized to its greatest effect in THE FACE THAT MUST DIE.Īs the book opens Horridge learns of a series of killings that he becomes convinced are the work of Roy Craig, a local gay man. It’s the story of John Horridge, a severely paranoid and homophobic lout based in Ramsey Campbell’s hometown of Liverpool. It was Campbell’s second novel, and may well be his crowning achievement, an unremittingly beak, disturbing and disorienting masterpiece that fully retains its power to shock and confound. Ramsey Campbell’s THE FACE THAT MUST DIE is one of the most powerful serial killer novels ever written. ![]()
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