“With his latest, Campbell continues to make life’s most trivial concerns the stuff of bloodcurdling nightmares, guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine.”
Leo Parker’s visit to Alphafen seemed idyllic. Soon after he leaves, that’s when the nightmares start.
The airport becomes a labyrinth.
The very words he says become treacherous, even lethal.
And what are the creatures in the photos he took?
Quite possibly Leo roused an ancient Alpine legend. When Leo finally understands what he brought home with him, his attempts to break free lead into greater nightmares still …
Why we’re excited about this book:
With sixty years of scaring the hell out his readers under his belt, Ramsey Campbell is still at it, at the top of his game. The author of The Parasite, Ancient Images, The Hungry Moon, The Searching Dead, Fellstone, The Nameless, and Demons by Daylight, among many others, Campbell is perhaps the most awarded and recognized living horror writer today. With his latest, Campbell continues to make life’s most trivial concerns the stuff of bloodcurdling nightmares, guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine. Catherine Cavendish (Those Who Dwell in Mordenhyrst Hall) says: “Published sixty years after Ramsey Campbell’s first story—”The Inhabitant of the Lake”—appeared, The Incubations is an enthralling story encompassing Nazi obsession with the supernatural, mixed with Lovecraftian threads and woven together in the author’s inimitable style. The sense of creeping dread that pervades Campbell’s work is well to the fore and keeps the reader hooked and guessing to the end.”, and Steve Rasnic Tem (Blood Kin, Figures Unseen) says:”A masterclass in paranoid prose, The Incubations presents us with Ramsey Campbell at the height of his powers. I can think of no other living writer so adept at creating nightmares from vaguely apprehended shadows, cross-purpose attempts at conversation, and the awkward perceptions of society’s perennial outsiders.”
Forthcoming from Flame Tree Press 26 November 2024, The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
