The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell6/30/2023 ![]() Along the way, Campbell deals with anti-horror, censorship crazes in Great Britain in both the 1930’s and 1980’s. Not so much the director, who died in a car crash mere days after the completion of filming.Ĭampbell does such a fine job of describing the fictional film that one starts to wish it were real - if so, it would be one of Karloff and Lugosi’s finest on-screen team-ups. Many of the actors and production staff remain alive 50 years later. Her quest takes her across much of England. She takes holiday time and with the help of an American film writer sets out to see if she can track down another copy of the film. In order to help deal with her trauma, Sandy uses the mentor’s notebook to reconstruct a list of people to contact about the film. But the film isn’t in Sandy’s mentor’s ransacked apartment. ![]() Metropolitan TV film editor Sandy Allan witnesses the baffling, apparent suicide of her friend and mentor, a film historian who had just announced that he’d secured a copy of a long-lost 1938 Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi British horror film. Ancient Images (1989) by Ramsey Campbell: Probably the sleekest, most thriller-like novel in the prolific Ramsey Campbell’s catalogue, Ancient Images is a story of detection with occult elements that begin to dominate as the novel progresses. ![]()
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