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The hungry moon ramsey campbell5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Preferred Choice Book Club Selection Troll Book Club alternate.Ĭopyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. This horror story is beautifully written, populated with well-realized characters and pervaded by an increasingly chilling atmosphere of dread and anxiety. And within this isolation, the monster's power grows umimpeded. Slowly Moonwell is isolated from the world, as telephone lines break down, a cloud cover brings continuous darkness, watches and clocks stop, roads mysteriously lead nowhere. What emerges from the pit is the monstrous creature, clothed now in the flesh of Mann, and it is only the town's pariahs who can see that something is radically wrong, that an evil has been unleashed on the community. Intending to exorcise the demon and claim the land for God, he is instead overwhelmed. Mann descends into the pit in which the ancient malignant being worshipped by the Druids millenia past is said to dwell. From the start, the shadow of religious dogmatism rears its ugly head, setting the stage for a tale in which the dangers of blind faith take a supernatural turn. They rally almost as one behind him and ostracize and persecute the few independent souls who do not. It's clear why Ramsey Campbell is known as the Godfather of HorrorThe Hungry Moon is an exercise in dread. To Moonwell comes the preacher Godwin Mann, whose particularly intolerant brand of fundamentalism appeals to the inhabitants. ![]() ![]() Campbell's seventh novel is set in Northern England, in the small bleak town of Moonwell, edged by moors pitted with treacherous mineshafts. ![]()
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