The Grin Of The Dark

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By Ramsey Campbell ISBN: 9780765319395 format: Hardcover pages: 400 publisher: Tor Books pub. date: 2008-07-08

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Never one to rest on his already ample laurels, UK horror master Campbell turns in another excellent piece of inventive, chilling suspense. Unemployed London film critic Simon Lester receives an apparent lucky break when his old film professor commissions him to write a book about forgotten silent-film comedian Tubby Thackeray. Once deemed as good as Chaplin's and Keaton's, Thackeray's movies are mysteriously missing from cinematic archives. In tracking down references and attempting to solve the riddle of Thackeray's anomalous absence, Simon treks across the seamier landscape of film production, from porn factories to Amsterdam brothels. After many maddening false leads, encounters with sinister clowns, and e-mail exchanges with a particularly snide film buff, Simon stumbles on a disturbing secret about Thackeray's real identity that may have less to do with comedy than with an ancient evil. Part traditional horror, part mystery yarn, and part Hollywood homage, Campbell's tale manages to be both spine-chilling and characteristically British. Superlative entertainment, among Campbell's best efforts.

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