Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach
Autor Ramsey Campbell Narator Daniel Millaren Limba Engleză Audio – 5 sep 2018
It’s
Ray’s
and
Sandra’s
first
family
holiday
in
Greece,
on
the
island
of
Vasilema.
The
skies
are
cloudier
than
anywhere
else
in
Greece,
and
they’re
intrigued
by
local
eccentricities—the
lack
of
mirrors,
the
outsize
beach
umbrellas,
the
saint’s
day
celebrated
with
an
odd
nocturnal
ritual.
Why
are
there
islanders
who
seem
to
follow
the
family
wherever
they
go?
Why
do
Sandra
and
the
teenage
grandchildren
have
strangely
similar
dreams?
Has
Sandra
been
granted
a
wish
she
didn’t
know
she
made?
Before
their
holiday
is
over,
some
of
the
family
may
learn
too
much
about
the
secret
that
keeps
the
island
alive.
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ISBN-13: 9781787580800
ISBN-10: 1787580806
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Flame Tree Audio
Colecția FLAME TREE PRESS
Locul publicării:New York, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1787580806
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Flame Tree Audio
Colecția FLAME TREE PRESS
Locul publicării:New York, United Kingdom
Descriere
It’s
Ray’s
and
Sandra’s
first
family
holiday
in
Greece,
on
the
newly
developed
island
of
Vasilema.
The
family
weren’t
to
know
that
the
skies
are
cloudier
above
the
island
than
anywhere
else
in
Greece,
and
they’re
mostly
intrigued
by
the
local
eccentricities
and
customs—the
lack
of
mirrors,
the
outsize
beach
umbrellas,
the
saint’s
day
celebrated
with
an
odd
nocturnal
ritual.
Only
why
are
there
islanders
who
seem
to
follow
the
family
wherever
they
go?
Why
do
Sandra
and
the
teenage
grandchildren
have
strangely
similar
dreams?
“I
was
in
this
huge
place
with
no
light
and
I
didn’t
want
to
see.
Something
sounded...
huge.”
And
has
Sandra
been
granted
a
wish
she
didn’t
even
know
she
made?
The
youngest
member
of
the
family
isn’t
taken
seriously
when
he
tells
tales
of
the
night:
“I
saw
someone
in
our
room.
Then
he
went
in
the
window,
and
he
sank
like
the
window
was
water,
and
then
he
wasn’t
there
any
more…”
Their
tours
take
them
to
an
abandoned
monastery
where
something
that
might
have
been
human
still
lives,
a
holiday
resort
that
is
unnaturally
deserted
during
the
day,
a
cave
where
more
than
one
gruesome
discovery
lies
in
wait.
Ray
buys
a
book
from
a
vendor
that
suggests
the
nature
of
the
island’s
secret,
but
soon
the
book
is
stolen,
and
whatever
stole
it
turns
on
him:
“He
saw
that
the
figure
had
turned
to
gaze
at
him.
In
a
moment
it
shied
the
remains
of
the
book
into
the
sea
and
crouched
towards
him.
He
couldn’t
have
said
why
he
was
grateful
not
to
be
able
to
make
out
its
face.
Its
posture
put
him
in
mind
of
a
runner
at
the
start
of
a
race,
an
idea
that
was
all
too
appropriate.
Before
he
could
take
a
breath
the
figure
came
for
him.
It
moved
as
fast
as
any
animal,
practically
flying
across
the
soft
sand…”
Before
their
holiday
is
over,
some
of
the
family
may
learn
more
than
they
can
bear
about
the
secret
that
keeps
the
island
alive...
FLAME
TREE
PRESS
is
the
new
fiction
imprint
of
Flame
Tree
Publishing.
Launching
in
2018
the
list
brings
together
brilliant
new
authors
and
the
more
established;
the
award
winners,
and
exciting,
original
voices.
Notă biografică
Ramsey
Campbellwas
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.
Among
his
novels
areThe
Face
That
Must
Die,Incarnate,Midnight
Sun,The
Count
of
Eleven,Silent
Children,The
Darkest
Part
of
the
Woods,The
Overnight,Secret
Story,The
Grin
of
the
Dark,Thieving
Fear,Creatures
of
the
Pool,The
Seven
Days
of
Cain,Ghosts
Know,The
Kind
Folk,Think
Yourself
LuckyandThirteen
Days
by
Sunset
Beach.Needing
Ghosts,The
Last
Revelation
of
Gla’aki,The
Pretenceand
The
Booking
are
novellas.
His
collections
includeWaking
Nightmares,Alone
with
the
Horrors,Ghosts
and
Grisly
Things,Told
by
the
Dead,Just
Behind
YouandHoles
for
Faces,
and
his
non-fiction
is
collected
asRamsey
Campbell,
Probably.
Limericks
of
the
Alarming
and
Phantasmal
are
what
they
sound
like.
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
Chimney”,
World
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Short
Story,
1978
“In
The
Bag”,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Short
Story,
1978
The
Parasite,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Novel,
1980
“Mackintosh
Willy”,
World
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Short
Story,
1980
Incarnate,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Novel,
1985
The
Hungry
Moon,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Novel,
1988
The
Influence,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Novel,
1989
and
Premios
Gigamesh,
1994
(for
Spanish
translation,
Ultratumba)
Ancient
Images,
Children
of
the
Night
Award
for
Best
Novel,
1989
Midnight
Sun,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Novel,
1991
Best
New
Horror
(co-edited
with
Stephen
Jones),
British
Fantasy
Award
and
World
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Anthology
or
Collection,
1991
Alone
With
The
Horrors,
Stoker
Award
of
the
Horror
Writers
of
America,
Best
Collection,
1994
and
World
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Collection,
1994
The
Long
Lost,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Novel,
1994
Liverpool
Daily
Post
&
Echo
Award
for
Literature,
1994
Premio
alla
Carriera
a
Ramsey
Campbell
(Prize
for
the
Career
of
Ramsey
Campbell),
Fantafestival,
Rome,
1995
The
House
On
Nazareth
Hill,
Best
Novel,
International
Horror
Guild,
1998
Grand
Master
Award,
World
Horror
Convention,
Atlanta,
Georgia,
1999
Lifetime
Achievement
Award
of
the
Horror
Writers
Association,
1999
Ghosts
And
Grisly
Things,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Collection,
1999
Ramsey
Campbell,
Probably,
Best
Non-Fiction,
International
Horror
Guild,
2002
and
Stoker
Award
of
the
Horror
Writers
of
America,
Superior
Achievement
in
Non-Fiction,
2002
and
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Collection,
2002Told
By
The
Dead,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Collection,
2003
Howie
Award
of
the
H.
P.
Lovecraft
Film
Festival
for
Lifetime
Achievement,
2006Living
Legend
Award
of
the
International
Horror
Guild,
2007
The
Grin
Of
The
Dark,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Novel,
2008
Honorary
Fellowship
of
John
Moores
University,
Liverpool,
for
outstanding
services
to
literature,
2015
Letters
To
Arkham,
British
Fantasy
Award,
Best
Non-Fiction,
2015
Life
Achievement
Award,
World
Fantasy
Awards,
2015
The
Searching
Dead,
Children
of
the
Night
Award
for
Best
Novel,
2016
Premio
Sheridan
Le
Fanu
for
Campbell’s
career,
2017
(given
in
Madrid)
Recenzii
“Britain’s
most
respected
living
horror
writer”
“Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today”
“Britain’s leading horror writer... His novels have been getting better and better”
“One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers”
“The John Le Carre of horror fiction”
“One of the best real horror writers at work today”
“The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition”
“Ramsey Campbell has succeeded more brilliantly than any other writer in bringing the supernatural tale up to date without sacrificing the literary standards that early masters made an indelible part of the tradition”
“England’s contemporary king of the horror genre”
“One of the few real writers in our field... In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all”
“An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that.”
“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”
“Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive”
“He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget you’re just reading a story”
“One of the world’s finest exponents of the classic British ghost story”
“Britain’s greatest living horror writer”
“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.”
“Campbell has solidly established himself to be the best writer working in this field today”
“When Mr Campbell pits his fallible, most human characters against enormous forces bent on incomprehensible errands the results are, as you might expect, often frightening, and, as you might not expect, often touching; even heartwarming.”
“Britain’s leading horror novelist”
“A horror writer in the classic mould... Britain’s premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin”
“Ramsey Campbell’s work is tremendous.”
“Campbell is a rightful tenant of M. R. James country, the genuine badlands of the human psyche.”
“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.”
“The Grand Master of British horror... the greatest living writer of horror fiction.”
“Britain’s greatest horror writer... Realistic, subtle and arcane.”
“In Campbell’s hands words take on a life of their own, creating images that stay with you, feelings that prey on you, and people you hope never ever to meet.”
“Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James.”
“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.”
“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”
“One of the few who can scare and disturb as well as make me laugh out loud. His humour is very black but very funny, and that’s a rare gift to have”
“The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers”
“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”
“One of the century’s great literary exponents of the gothic and horrific”
“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.”
“Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today”
“Britain’s leading horror writer... His novels have been getting better and better”
“One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers”
“The John Le Carre of horror fiction”
“One of the best real horror writers at work today”
“The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition”
“Ramsey Campbell has succeeded more brilliantly than any other writer in bringing the supernatural tale up to date without sacrificing the literary standards that early masters made an indelible part of the tradition”
“England’s contemporary king of the horror genre”
“One of the few real writers in our field... In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all”
“An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that.”
“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”
“Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive”
“He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget you’re just reading a story”
“One of the world’s finest exponents of the classic British ghost story”
“Britain’s greatest living horror writer”
“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.”
“Campbell has solidly established himself to be the best writer working in this field today”
“When Mr Campbell pits his fallible, most human characters against enormous forces bent on incomprehensible errands the results are, as you might expect, often frightening, and, as you might not expect, often touching; even heartwarming.”
“Britain’s leading horror novelist”
“A horror writer in the classic mould... Britain’s premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin”
“Ramsey Campbell’s work is tremendous.”
“Campbell is a rightful tenant of M. R. James country, the genuine badlands of the human psyche.”
“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.”
“The Grand Master of British horror... the greatest living writer of horror fiction.”
“Britain’s greatest horror writer... Realistic, subtle and arcane.”
“In Campbell’s hands words take on a life of their own, creating images that stay with you, feelings that prey on you, and people you hope never ever to meet.”
“Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James.”
“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.”
“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”
“One of the few who can scare and disturb as well as make me laugh out loud. His humour is very black but very funny, and that’s a rare gift to have”
“The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers”
“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”
“One of the century’s great literary exponents of the gothic and horrific”
“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.”