Scared Stiff: Seven Tales of Seduction and Terror
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (984 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0446387835 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Essential Ramsey Campbell Prattle On, Boyo If you bought this book expecting a lot of sexual action, then you'll be sorely disappointed. Eroticism is *not* hot sex. Try your local adult bookstore, instead. That said, *real* Ramsey Campbell and/or *real* fans of the horror genre will appreciate this collection. To be fair, the first three titles aren't all that. They are, in fact, rather dull. However, the shudders and shivers pick up in "The Seductress" and increase from there. Hot sex seekers should l. The deadly art of seduction Schtinky Clive Barker's introduction is as good as the stories themselves, stating in regards to the melding of horror and erotica that "In an age when characters in all manner of fiction have forsaken their blushes to fornicate, horror fiction clings to its underwear with a nunnish zeal." Since Scared Stiff was first published in 1988, this was one of the influential books that led to the production of more erotica in horror, such as the Hot Blood series.There are onl. Not Free SF Reader average A short selection of Campbell's story wherein he is dealing more explicitly withsexuality, from the disturbed and the alone kind, to the volunteer for group ritual with bad end variety. They are pretty decent, overall, with a 3.45 average.Scared Stiff : Dolls - Ramsey CampbellScared Stiff : The Other Woman - Ramsey CampbellScared Stiff : Lilith's - Ramsey CampbellScared Stiff : The Seductress - Ramsey CampbellScared Stiff : Stages - Ramsey CampbellScared Stiff
British horror master Ramsey Campbell offers 10 sly and disturbing stories of an erotic hue in Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death, an expanded version of the 1988 collection of the same name subtitled Seven Tales of Seduction and Terror. Clive Barker provides an introduction, the author an afterword in which he comments with typical wit on his repressed Catholic upbringing.