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The Way of the Worm | Ramsey Campbell | Rougeski Book Review

July 26, 2020 Rougeski 0

The Way of the Worm by Ramsey Campbell is a stunning conclusion to the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy that is tailored to be read only by the courageous.  This dramatic tragedy completes a series [more]

Cosmic Horror

Born to the Dark | Ramsey Campbell | Rougeski Book Review

July 26, 2020 Rougeski 0

Born to the Dark by Ramsey Campbell is the second volume of The Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.  It continues the development of the plot that began in The Searching Dead. “Go to the dark where [more]

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The Searching Dead | Ramsey Campbell | Rougeski Book Review

July 25, 2020 Rougeski 0

The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell, grand master of cosmic horror, is a phenomenal, magical portal that leads into the renowned trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth.  Campbell performs at his best in this evocative [more]

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The Hungry Moon | Ramsey Campbell | Rougeski Book Review

June 3, 2020 Rougeski 0

The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell is permeated with allusions to the Druids and their apocryphal predilection for blood lust, human sacrifice, and even a fabled consumption the dead.  Since there is so little verifiable [more]

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The Sins of the Father | by J.G. Faherty | Rougeski Review

May 16, 2020 Rougeski 0

The Sins of the Father by J.G. Faherty takes place in the Innsmouth of H.P. Lovecraft. It soon becomes obvious that The sins of the father is a loving pastiche of Lovecraft’s Arkham cycle, a [more]

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The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | Leslie S. Klinger | Rougeski Review

May 15, 2020 Rougeski 0

  The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft and The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham, both edited by Leslie S. Klinger, could be considered the two most important books that Lovecraft’s acolytes must own, adepts and [more]

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The Wise Friend | Ramsey Campbell | Rougeski Review

February 9, 2020 Rougeski 0

The Wise Friend by Ramsey Campbell may very well turn out to be Campbell’s magnum opus.  On the surface it appears to be a marvelous, mystical tale of cosmic horror, one that evokes inexplicable evil [more]

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A Lush and Seething Hell | John Hornor Jacobs | Rougeski Review

November 19, 2019 Rougeski 0

A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs is indeed a lush and seething read for those who lust after delicious prose and a leisured literary journey toward madness, the inexorable threat that many [more]

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The Darkest Part of the Woods | Ramsey Campbell | Rougeski Review

December 20, 2018 Rougeski 0

The Darkest Part of the Woods by Ramsey Campbell is an exquisite treatise on the human fascination with those dark shadows and glowing eyes that hide in the mysterious obscurity of the forest, or perhaps, [more]

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The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness | H.P. Lovecraft | Rougeski Reviews

November 18, 2018 Rougeski 0

The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness, seminal exemplars of the Cthulhu mythos, are two of the most foundational and influential texts in the history of all speculative fiction.  However, many have [more]

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Jake Preston, New York photographer, spent his life searching for something more, a magic he could never quite perceive--yet he always let the lens see for him.  He hungered for a revelation, but was terrified at the prospect of finding one . . . until he discovered his lover, dead on his blood-spattered bathroom floor, and on a mirror, a Cajun French message scrawled in fresh blood, the words merging with his reflection like sordid war paint.

  Even though he cannot translate the scarlet message, he knows what it means.  The murder is his fault--blood for blood.   With unblinking eyes, Jake smears the haunting words into a meaningless blur of red and then with scarlet-stained fingers transcribes the message onto his flesh, transferring the bloodguilt onto his soul, completing the ritual by painting his face with a glistening mask of red.  He knows what he has to do.  

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Jimmy and Julia, two college students, are haunted by oppressive memories of tyrannical, deceased mothers; Julia responds by becoming a reclusive overachiever and Jimmy, a serial killer. Their lives become inextricably intertwined by a shared fixation for a missing library book that contains marginalia detailing plans for the brutal murder of a local woman.

  Julia, believing she has uncovered information that can stop a string of serial killings, struggles to find a way to prevent the murderer from striking again, never realizing she has embarked on a perilous, unconscious quest for freedom from the past.   And Jimmy goes hunting . . . for Julia.

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At the Devil's Own Game

When Gina, a former prostitute and drug addict from Chicago crosses paths with Zachary, a Louisiana Satanist posing as a defrocked priest, sparks fly.  Each has something that the other requires in order to prevail.  What could possibly go wrong?

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Kaitlyn suffered an abusive childhood.  Her nightmare family life drove her to become one with the Chicago night world of prostitution and drugs, all she believed she deserved.  Visions of her father naked under his black bathrobe continued to haunt her.  Years later, she ends up in prison.  A well-respected judge, mesmerized by her beauty, frees her from jail and marries her.  However, Kaitlyn is still a prisoner, owned by another man who wears a black robe.  Unable to conceive a child, she believes she is doomed to live without the only love she might ever find.  During a suicide attempt, a drop of her blood lands on a newspaper article which promises her the pure love she longs for.  She takes on the former name of her only friend, a nun, and is reborn as Gina, apostate nun, who heads to Louisiana to fulfill her dream.  But first, she must beat the devil at his own game.

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