Slow and subtle horror novel

Ancient Images
von Ramsey Campbell

Bewertet mit 3 Sternen

Not as good as his other works

I was sure I must love this book, but in the end it was just a moderate horror novel for me. Guess it tells something that it took me four months to read the story from start to finish, reading a couple pages every now and then and while doing so falling asleep most of the time. For large parts, the book consisted only of Sandy driving around and talking to people, which sounds much more interesting than it turned out to be - at least for me. The episodes seemed to repeat themselves with only little variety. Only towards the end did the story catch my attention, and the most interesting part of the book really was the author's afterword. In the end, this was a very close candidate for a DNF book but I just couldn't bring myself to do so, hoping that things would get better, as they finally did at the end.