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Terry Lamsley

Autor(a) de Conference with the Dead

18+ Works 128 Membros 3 Reviews 2 Favorited

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Obras de Terry Lamsley

Conference with the Dead (1996) 40 cópias
Made Ready & Cupboard Love (2005) 21 cópias
Dark Matters (2000) 20 cópias
R.I.P. (2009) 9 cópias
The Break 2 cópias
Walking the Dog 2 cópias
Suburban Blight 2 cópias
Something Worse 1 exemplar(es)
The Toddler 1 exemplar(es)
The Stunted House 1 exemplar(es)
Sickhouse Hospitality 1 exemplar(es)
Screens 1 exemplar(es)
Geistergeschichten aus Buxton (1999) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Tenth Annual Collection (1997) — Contribuinte — 286 cópias
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (1999) — Contribuinte — 266 cópias
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996) — Contribuinte — 240 cópias
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Four (2012) — Contribuinte — 135 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997) — Contribuinte — 112 cópias
The Mammoth Book of New Terror (2004) — Contribuinte — 85 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 (2000) — Contribuinte — 81 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 (1828) — Contribuinte — 78 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 12 (2001) — Contribuinte — 71 cópias
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror (2010) — Contribuinte — 70 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 07 (1996) — Contribuinte — 67 cópias
House of Fear: An Anthology of Haunted House Stories (2011) — Contribuinte — 66 cópias
Lethal Kisses: 18 Tales of Sex, Horror, and Revenge (1996) — Contribuinte, algumas edições54 cópias
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 08 (1997) — Contribuinte — 52 cópias
Dancing With the Dark (1999) — Contribuinte — 49 cópias
The Century's Best Horror Fiction: Volume 2 (2011) — Contribuinte — 46 cópias
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Contribuinte — 46 cópias
The Best New Horror: Volume Six (1995) — Contribuinte — 43 cópias
The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII (1994) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
Taverns of the Dead (2005) — Contribuinte — 41 cópias
Dark Terrors 3 (1997) — Contribuinte — 34 cópias
Dark Terrors 4 (1998) — Contribuinte — 31 cópias
In the Footsteps of Dracula: Tales of the Un-Dead Count (2017) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias
Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales (2005) — Contribuinte — 27 cópias
Shivers for Christmas (1995) — Contribuinte — 23 cópias
Dark Terrors (1996) — Contribuinte — 22 cópias
Subterranean Gallery (1999) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
By Moonlight Only (2003) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Midnight Never Comes (1997) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Don't Turn Out the Light (2005) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
White of the Moon (1999) — Contribuinte — 3 cópias

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1941
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
UK
Locais de residência
Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK
Ocupação
writer

Membros

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Two most excellent longish stories, not quite novellas, of the strange tale genre. Lamsley is good at heaping on the gradually disturbing details. The first story, Made Ready is full of suspense as things gradually turn askew during one holiday that won't be forgotten. Cupboard Love is even weirder without anything really being out of place. Another holiday gone bad.

Both stories are marvelously creepy, built up gradually and when the payoff comes Lamsley leaves it to your imagination instead of having the monster stare you in the face a la King.

Nice illustrations by Glenn Chadborne.
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
I seemed to like this more than anyone else on goodreads. Not sure if I'm just stupid or everyone else is, but I have my own theory about that. Anyway, Lamsley has fashioned a nifty little Lovecraftian novella that should give suicides pause and reminds me somewhat of [a:H.P. Lovecraft|9494|H.P. Lovecraft|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1299165714p2/9494.jpg]'s From Beyond. Oh, and don't go into the top flat at 37 Calder Street. I'll say nothing more.

Nice cover by Jason Van Hollander.… (mais)
 
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
Terry Lamsley favors eeriness over blood n' guts, which I prefer... generally. This is a collection of tales; about a dozen or so. Some stories were absolutely fantastic, whereas others didn't really do it for me, but that's common in collections. They can't all be winners.

There is one story, "The Break", that was fascinatingly strange and bizarre. I loved the way he described the setting and atmosphere. For example, I've never read a story where the author made a seagull seem scary! That takes talent! However, there was a turning point in the story where some characters did something that made me say out loud, "Uh oh. I think these characters are going to turn out to be vampires." It was so great up until that point. The vampire angle wasn't even needed. He totally torpedoed a potentially great story by unnecessarily adding in a tired cliché.

The really good stories, like "Walking the Dog", more than made up for the weak ones making the collection overall above average. Not stunning, but good.
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1 vote
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Dead_Dreamer | Jan 8, 2010 |

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Obras
18
Also by
33
Membros
128
Popularidade
#157,245
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Resenhas
3
ISBNs
10
Idiomas
1
Favorito
2

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