![]() ![]() It's also occasionally extremely British, where politeness and propriety can be a tad maddening at times. It is set in the late 80s, so no cell phones or internet, which actually adds to the suspense and occasional isolation the main character deals with as she struggles to find the film. Campbell's done great things with this plot. The film's existence has been in question for 50 years and seems like someone or something will stop at nothing to keep it hidden.or maybe it's all a bunch of spooky coincidences and overactive imaginations. The story is ingenious, a movie buff's dream, a film editor's in pursuit of a missing pre-war (WW2) horror film starring Lugosi and Karloff. There is just something so right with the way this guy writes, the way he brings on the dread, the suspense, the unease without having to resort to gore and guts on every other page, not that I don't appreciate a gorefest now and then. I could barely put it down, the San Francisco Chronicle claims on the book cover that it's to be read in one sitting, took me 4 days on and off(life kept getting in the way), but what a great book. This is only my second book by Campbell, first one was Overnight, which has left me interested in the writer, but not overall impressed by the book. I wanted a change of pace from blood guts and gore of last week's Deathbringer, so I picked up Ancient Images, which has sat on my TBR list for a long long time. ![]()
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