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Cold Print (1985)

door Ramsey Campbell

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When Sam Strutt strode into a sleazy bookshop in search of exotic porn, a macabre many-mouthed creature made an occult propostition that cooled his blood. This is just one of the horrifying visions spelled out in black and white in 'Cold Print', tales written with a quill of fire - to make your blood run cold.… (meer)
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A collection of the author's short fiction ranging from his early efforts in the early 1960s to mature work of the early 1980s when this collection was published. The earlier, very Lovecraft influenced, stories are rather clumsy pastiches and didn't really hold my interest, but the later work where the name checking of standard Lovecraft entities recedes into the background and only minor references are made, such as to books from the Mythos which people come across, are much more successful.

The final story in the book, 'The Voice of the Beach', is influenced by Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows' as Campbell acknowledges in his introduction to the collection where he says that he attempted in it to return to the aims of Lovecraft who was a great admirer of Blackwood's story. As in the best of Campbell's fiction, it is unsettling and disturbing, with things only half seen or sensed providing the chills. Mainly due to such later tales, my rating is raised to a respectable 3 stars. ( )
  kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |
Impressão Fria é um conto de terror e fantasia urbana pertencente ao mythos do Lovecraft, porém, escrito e floreado com características narrativas e ambientação própria de seu autor: Ramsey Campbell.

Pode-se dizer que Campbell joga em casa, escreve um personagem fastidioso, com segredos sujos, em sua própria cidade-ficticia-suja-e-fastidiosa, Gloucerstershire; cheia de becos estreitos que dão em ruas ocultas, bares auspiciosos com personas enigmáticas e bibliotecas obscuras que não são o que parecem ser.

No entanto, mesmo que com um setting praticamente perfeito, — o que não deixa de ser méritos do autor, é claro — o conto é razoável para bom, não mais que isso. O interessante foi observar sua abordagem, onde o protagonista e sua perversidade — observada nos livros que ele procura, e que adianto, não são de ocultismo — tornam-se cruciais para o desfecho do conto.

É diferente de muitos outros autores que já li e que abordam o Mythos; não há o excesso de horrores indescritíveis do Lovecraft aqui, e em vez do horror cósmico, o que corta a história é um taciturno niilismo, como diz uma outra resenha; é mais Thomas Liggoti do que Lovecraft.

A ambientação também difere de um Ashton Clark Smith, das raízes em cultos antigos do Howard e até da abordagem cíclica mais recente feita pelo Alan Moore do Ciclo (como o próprio H.P chamava inicialmente)

Apesar do terror praticamente nulo, o que eu trato como um ligeiro ponto negativo quando leio qualquer obra nesse molde, não há como negar que o Campbell ao menos tenta colocar seu tempero próprio na abordagem desse universo. Ele se afasta do pastiche e ruma ambientes e narrativas mais modernas.

Uma história de horror, um protagonista com preferências estranhas, um cenário bem escrito e o desfecho dentro de uma livraria. Não lhe tiro o ponto de que ele fez um conto extremamente "gostável"; para mim foi bom, só bom.

Veremos os próximos. ( )
  RolandoSMedeiros | Aug 1, 2023 |
This book was not an enjoyable read for me. ( )
  StevenRenon | Apr 1, 2023 |
Quality Mythos work in places, too Lovecraftian Pastiche in others, but some real, truly unmissable gems in here for all those with an interest in the Cthulhu Mythos or Britains Horror scene. Worth a look and for those with a Mythos bent, unmissabl ( )
  aadyer | May 1, 2011 |
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When Sam Strutt strode into a sleazy bookshop in search of exotic porn, a macabre many-mouthed creature made an occult propostition that cooled his blood. This is just one of the horrifying visions spelled out in black and white in 'Cold Print', tales written with a quill of fire - to make your blood run cold.

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