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Title: Phantasmagorically Dangerous
Review: I picked up this book and read "In The Bag" straight through. In the story a school principle is haunted by a shadowy-faced man and the memory of the accidental death via suffocation of a childhood friend. Though a little trite it's interesting enough to hold your attention, then the ending hits like florid napalm. Suddenly your mind is opened up by a world that is unfixed, unsafe, crawling with horrors, and left to ponder an ending so terrifying, so bizarre, you cannot possibly imagine what bore it.And that's just one story.Like the dark fantastic of Clive Barker or H.P. Lovecraft, Campbell is an author who writes from a dangerous dimension that shimmies between this plane and the next, at anytime plunging normal lives into the fifth circle of Hell and caking them with layer upon layer of seething psychological excrement.This is a Horror writer that should be viewed alongside the greats.
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