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Friends,
Happy Halloween. I don’t really need to introduce legendary horror author Ramsey Campbell, but I will just say it was an honor to have him on the show. Very few people have done as much as Ramsey to deepen horror narratives, and very few have shown – with dozens of books penned – such a commitment to the genre.
SHOW NOTES
• For more on Ramsey, go to his website. Some books not available on bookshop.org, but that are Ramsey Campbell essentials include The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Doll Who Ate Its Mother, The Searching Dead, his excellent story collection Strange Things and Stranger Places, and my favorite, The Face That Must Die. Also, here’s Ramsey’s essay collection (which includes the essay we mention on the episode, “Granted by Granta”), Certainly. Here’s another good (short) interview with Ramsey.
• Early on, Ramsey mentions the 1944 1953 sci fi/horror movie The Lady and the Monster and a later incarnation of a similar theme in Donovan’s Brain.
• Here’s that scene from War of the Worlds where the priest gets disintegrated.
• Other horror-themed episodes of AEWCH include:
- AEWCH 166 with Phil Ford and JF Martel of Weird Studies.
- AEWCH 158 with Paul Tremblay
- AEWCH 93 with Sara Maria Griffin (and also, I was on Sara’s podcast, Juvenalia, talking about Clive Barker)
- AEWCH 61 with mystery and horror author Sara Gran
- AEWCH 58 on horror films with screenwriter (of The Invitation and Destroyer, among other things) Phil Hay
- AEWCH 40 about horror and poetry with Zachary Schomburg
- AEWCH 44 on the vampire as a theory with Kelly Link and Jordy Rosenberg
- AEWCH 23 on postmodern horror with Brian Evenson
• Here’s HP Lovecraft’s “vampire” story, “The Shunned House” (I also think that “The Picture in the House” is a sort of vampire story!)
• T.E.D. Klein’s list of 25 most popular horror themes is in The Book of Lists: Horror
• “I’d rather have an enigma than an explanation…they last longer.” – Ramsey Campbell
• Have you seen Last Year in Marienbad yet?
• The calm moments in David Lynch films are the half smile on the government agent’s face thing I mention brought to you by Jon Ronson, who I spoke with on AEWCH 163.
• Here’s a bit on when horror comics were banned in Britain by the communist party, or if you want to really go deeper into the story, read Martin Barker’s A Haunt of Fears: The Strange History of the British Horror Comics Campaign.
• Watch the trailer for Dario Argento’s horror classic, Deep Red + Roy Ward Baker’s Quartemass and the Pit + And watch Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger.
Until next time, friends,
CH
Conner Habib 
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