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Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers Weekly calls Campbell "a horror writer's horror writer," adding, "His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed." The Cleveland Plain Dealer says his horror fiction is "of consistently high quality," and The Washington Post praises Campbell for continuing "to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries."
The original publication of Scared Stiff almost created the sub-genre of erotic horror. Never had sex and death been so mesmerizingly entwined. Clive Barker, in his Introduction, says, "One of the delightfully unsettling things about these tales is the way Ramsey's brooding, utterly unique vision renders an act so familiar to us all so fretful, so strange, so chilling. Sex . . . is the perfect stuff for the horror writer, and there can be few artists working in the genre as capable of analyzing and dramatizing [this] as Campbell."
For this edition, Campbell has added three new stories which have never before appeared in book form.
A collection of chilling tales that unite the horrific with the erotic. From of the world's finest contemporary horror writers.
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Jack Brown
reviewed Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death on January 03, 2014
Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
Sex and horror are two very intimate and individual things. Campbell has brought forth a number of stories in this anthology that manage to somehow both arouse and terrify. Looking back at it, even though I finished it just last night, I am having a hard time with where I sit with this book. It's not a matter if it was good or not, or if it succeeded in what it was supposed to do, for on both those things it succeeded extremely well.
'Scared Stiff' contains a wide enough variety of stories across both the erotic and horror genres that readers will be sure to find something at least that raises the hairs along the back of their necks. There are more than a few of the stories where I had to set the book down after finishing the tale and do something to clear my mind. Not to mention, some of the stories will be lingering with me for a long time, having touched on personal fears or kinks.
That said, there are other stories in this collection that don't seem to work as well. This could easily be a personal thing, due to the nature of the two genres that Campbell is writing in. Those that I didn't enjoy tended to feel out dated and the language out of place, yet they were still enjoyable all in all.
One of the surprises of this book was the last 'story' on the anthology, which is about Campbell's life and how this book came about. I learned a lot about the writer, and it was a treat to be given insight into what has been a complex and very intimate anthology.
If you are a reader of erotic or horror fiction, I strongly recommend you pick this up. More so if you are on the horror side of things. There is something about horror-erotica that pushes past a boundary into areas uncomfortable and terribly personal. Campbell has a unique and interesting style that captures a lot of detail using imagery and words that collect both the profane as well as conjuring images of sexuality. It was a real treat to read.
So, pick this anthology up. If you are curious about the erotica-horror genre, this is a really good example of what it should look like.
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