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"In every respect, Campbell's best." - Kirkus Reviews

Isolated on the moors of northern England, the town of Moonwell has remained faithful to their Druid traditions and kept their old rituals alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn’t about to let that continue, and his intolerant brand of fundamentalism has struck a chord with the residents. But Mann goes too far when he descends into the pit where the ancient being who’s been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell. What emerges is a demon in Mann’s shape, and only the town’s outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong. As the evil spreads, Moonwell becomes cut off from the rest of the world…

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"This horror story is beautifully written, populated with well-realized characters and pervaded by an increasingly chilling atmosphere of dread and anxiety." -- Publishers Weekly

"In every respect, Campbell's best." -- Kirkus Reviews

“Britain’s most respected living horror writer” -- Oxford Companion to English Literature

“Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today” -- Time Out

“Britain’s leading horror writer... His novels have been getting better and better” -- City Limits

“One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers” -- Oxford Star

“The John Le Carre of horror fiction” -- Bookshelf, Radio 4

“One of the best real horror writers at work today” -- Interzone

“The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition” -- The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural

“England’s contemporary king of the horror genre” -- Atlanta Constitution

“One of the few real writers in our field... In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all” -- Peter Straub

“Ramsey Campbell has a talent for terror – he knows how to give you nightmares while you’re still awake... Only a few writers can lay claim to such a level of consummate craftsmanship” -- Robert Bloch

“Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive” -- Twilight Zone Magazine

“He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget you’re just reading a story” -- Publishers Weekly

“One of the world’s finest exponents of the classic British ghost story” -- Sounds

“Britain’s greatest living horror writer” -- Alan Moore

“For sheer ability to compose disturbing, evocative prose, he is unmatched in the horror/fantasy field... He turns the traditional horror novel inside out, and makes it work brilliantly” -- Fangoria

“Britain’s leading horror novelist” -- New Statesman

“Campbell writes the most disturbing horror fiction around” -- Today

“Ramsey Campbell is better than all the rest of us put together” -- Dennis Etchison

“Ramsey Campbell is the best horror writer alive, period” -- Thomas Tessier

“A horror writer in the classic mould... Britain’s premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin” -- Q Magazine

“The undisputed master of the psychological horror novel” -- Robert Holdstock

“Perhaps the most important living writer in the horror fiction field” -- David Hartwell

“Ramsey Campbell’s work is tremendous” -- Jonathan Ross

“Campbell is a rightful tenant of M. R. James country, the genuine badlands of the human psyche” -- Norman Shrapnel in the Guardian

“One of the world’s finest exponents of the classic British ghost story... His writing explores the potential for fear in the mundane, the barely heard footsteps, the shadow flitting past at the edge of one’s sight” -- Daily Telegraph

“Britain’s greatest horror writer... Realistic, subtle and arcane” -- Waterstones Guide to Books

“Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James” -- Times

“Campbell is literate in a field which has attracted too many comic-book intellects, cool in a field where too many writers – myself included – tend toward panting melodrama... Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good” -- Stephen King

“Easily the finest practising British horror novelist and the one whose work can most wholeheartedly be recommended to those who dislike the genre... His misclassification as a genre writer obscures his status as the finest magic realist Britain possesses this side of J. G. Ballard” -- Daily Telegraph

“The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers” -- Financial Times

“He writes of our deepest fears in a precise, clear prose that somehow manages to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time. He is a powerful, original writer, and you owe it to yourself to make his acquaintance” -- Washington Post

“The foremost stylist and innovator in British horror fiction” -- The Scream Factory

“There are a few writers who are special. They make the world in their books; or rather, they open a window or a door or a magic casement, and they show you the world in which they live. Ramsey Campbell, for example, writes stories that, read in quantity, will re-form your world into a grey and ominous place in which strange shapes flicker at the corner of your eyes, and a patch of smoke or a blown plastic shopping bag takes on some kind of ghastly significance.” -- Neil Gaiman

“One of the century’s great literary exponents of the gothic and horrific” -- Guardian

About the Author

Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as "Britain's most respected living horror writer". He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature.

His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain, where a film of The Influence is in production. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.

AWARDS:

The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988

Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999

Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999

Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, 2007

A Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Flame Tree Press; New edition (April 11, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787581993
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787581999
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches

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Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946 in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets.

Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", and Robert Hadji has described him as "perhaps the finest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition", while S. T. Joshi stated, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."

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Gunlord

Well written, but the plot...ehhh.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2021

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Not gonna summarize it here, but there were some things I liked about it–the slow buildup and very creepy monsters, as well as an emphasis on the moon that reminded me of Bloodborne of all things. Alas, I had a very hard time keeping track of the characters (even though there weren’t that many), and the ending, while cool, really did seem to come out of left field–a real deus ex machina, like other folks have said, though I don’t wanna spoil it. I’ll give it 4 stars cause I was entertained, but I think Campbell just isn’t for me, unfortunately.

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Sharon Donahue

The Hungry Moon

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2022

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The story is all over the place and sometimes hard to follow. The ending was a definite let down to me.

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Jonathan

Great slow burn

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2022

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This book is a hell of a slow burn, not even hinting at the cosmic horror until you're about 20% done. But when the story really starts moving, it jacks up the atmosphere and tension to 11. If you love cosmic horror and weird fiction, this does not disappoint at all.

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Daniel R. Robichaud II

If you haven't read this, you are seriously missing out.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2002

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Once upon a time, I read an interview in Fangoria magazine with Mr. Campbell, and based upon that article (and the strength of short stories I had read by the man) I went out and bought everything I could find. The Hungry Moon is one of my favorite novels from that time (the other is Ancient Images, also highly recommended)... Fantastic, well worth tracking down. I recall that interview made mention that John Carpenter was interested in making the book into a movie... That would be pretty interesting, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. Still, we have this terror-ific novel, and that is already MORE than enough!!! In short: get this book, and give yourself a treat. To this day, I still buy Ramsey Campbell's books and treasure the memories of gooseflesh and shivers I got on those warm summer nights, when I first discovered his exceptional works.

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Jim Martell

Solid yarn from Campbell

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 12, 2012

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I loved this one. It was recommended on a best-of list by the Horror Writers of America (or something). certainly had some similarities to Herbert's The Dark which I read as a kid about 30 years ago, but Hungry Moon had even creepier imagery. As with all the best horror, the object of the readers' fear isn't tangible or obvious, merely hinted at. Characters are well-drawn and there is no happy ending for most of them. I give it 8/10.

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Andy

Cosmic Druids Good, Evangelical Christians Bad

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2019

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There’s a stretch toward the end where a character has a supremely awesome, cosmic-horror vision that might be my favorite thing Campbell’s ever written. Also, any time religious fundamentalism is the ultimate villain, we horror fans win.

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Boring

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2021

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Thought about ditching this halfway through and wish I would have. While there may have been some good ideas here the author never quite pulls it all together. Endless descriptions of the moon, moors a darkness didn’t help either. Skip this one for sure.

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Epic horror novel

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2019

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This is an incredible, sprawling, epic horror novel. An unwieldy, knockabout (to use a word Campbell himself used to describe the story in his afterword) nature; a large cast of very well-drawn characters; and a consistent unpredictability; these are the elements which make this a bona fide classic and one of the most entertaining novel-length works I've encountered in the genre.

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MR W

A disappointment.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 26, 2020

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I went into this book with high expectations after reading Campbell's The Influence but I feel quite let down by The Hungry Moon. It starts off well. The premise is interesting, with the Jim Jones style cult as the instigator of events that lead down a Lovecraft style of story and tropes. But one of the things that really got to me from the beginning and picked up by some other reviewers, is the constant changing of characters, their relatives and how the novel switches incessantly. I found this very confusing at times, and it wasn't until later in the book, when some of the characters had been killed off, that the book became less of a chore to read. It is also bloated, it could easily have lost a hundred pages or more.

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Reb

Not hungry for more

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 21, 2007

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I came to this book curious as to Campbell's renown as Britain's premier practitioner of the horror genre, previously having read only his short stories. Frankly I came away with no little bafflement as to the grounds for this reputation.

There are several worthy aspects to this novel: Campbell's imagery is genuinely disturbing, subtle and free from cliche; the attempts (perhaps neither, unfortunately, entirely successful) to address issues of religious fanaticism and nuclear weaponry - both still timely twenty years on; he also takes the trouble to paint his scene broadly, taking on a large cast of characters, most of whom are skillfully imagined. But this wide range is also one of the problems - there is simply too much content in the book, and furthermore, the quality of writing is somewhat uneven. I felt the novel was slightly too bloated, and its pace, although never exactly slow, overall a little too pedestrian.

And although Campbell generally avoids the more tedious staples of genre convention, some of the tropes are too wooden (one of the other reviews on this site nicely enumerates these creaking plot supports). Finally, although the prose is generally well wrought - transparent in its description and so on - it does stumble at places in the middle and towards the end of the book; although Campbell complains of being over-edited in his afterword, there was sufficient clumsiness in parts of the text to suggest that quite the opposite might be true.

All in all, the novel was perfectly readable, but not quite up to the standard of excellence I had hoped for given the author's good name.

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Heavy going.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 9, 2021

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Would be better as a tv or film. Too many indistinct characters introduced too fast I’m still trying.

Iqbal, Peterborough

The plot is promising and I had hoped the writer ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 19, 2015

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The plot is promising and I had hoped the writer would delve more into the hypocrisy of the town that the false preacher would expose. However the book tried to revert to a more traditional horror story, which was not executed that well and ultimately left me feeling unsatisfied.

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James Miles

Great read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 29, 2020

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This is classic Ramsay. It's greatest strength is that it feels too plausible.

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