Secret Story

Ramsey Campbell

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You’re an underpaid civil servant who dreams of chucking it all to become a famous author.  You live with your overbearing mother who always seems to interrupt when you’re writing a key scene.  Your imagination is dark, your inspiration the terrible things that happen to can happen to a young woman traveling alone . . . .
Your terrifying short story about a horrible murder on an underground train is to be published.  Even better, it will be made into a movie.  A pretty young journalist is pursuing you.
            Except.
            You’ve been fired.
            The journalist wants an interview, not a date. 
            The film’s director wants you to make a few changes in your story. 
            And, worst of all, your imagination has run dry.  
 You’ll just have to kill someone new . . .
 

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Chapter One
            “Dudley, there’s something I haven’t been telling you,” she said, and at once he was terrified that she knew.
 
Chapter Two
            Her first mistake was thinking he was mad.
 
As the train left the station he started to talk in a low passionate voice. They were alone in the carriage farthest from the driver, except for two beer bottles rolling about in their own stains and bumping together as if they were trying to mate

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“One of the most celebrated modern masters of horror, with an unmatched gift for creating claustrophobic dread-filled atmospheres...Secret Story is the most accessible novel Campbell has written in years, with a suspenseful plot that uses the reader’s own preconceived notions about the thriller genre against them...Thirty years after his first book was published, Campbell is still producing some of his best work.”--Locus

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Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell is one of the world’s most renowned and honored horror writers.  He has won more British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards than he has fingers, plus three Bram Stoker Awards.  Campbell is the author of such classic works of horror and dark fantasy as Obsession, The Face That Must Die, The Nameless, Incarnate, and The Influence, and more recently novels, The Overnight, and The Darkest Part of the Woods.  His short fiction has been collected in several volumes including Alone With the Horrors and Scared Stiff.  Campbell lives with his wife, Jenny, in Merseyside in England. 

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Secret Story
Ramsey Campbell

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
May 2007
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780765355256
ISBN10: 0765355256
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 400 pages
$7.99

Hardcover

Hardcover
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
May 2006
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780765316165
ISBN10: 0765316161
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 400 pages
$25.95

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
April 2007
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781429910835
ISBN10: 1429910836
400 pages
$6.99
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