Děsivé důsledky – Campbell Ramsey (2023)

A cross-section of fifty years of literary nightmares, this short story collection by one of the most significant contemporary horror authors is not characterized by hectoliters of blood, wailing ghosts, or hungry monsters. Instead, the author's domain is urban and rural paranoia, unrest and distress, fractured relationships, the eeriness of unfamiliar places and unknown people, the horror of everyday life, and the unreliability of the senses. The stories from 1964 to 2012, which the author himself selected for this representative Czech edition, breathe the chill of modern life. With a keen observational talent and the ability to detect terrifying elements in the most mundane situations, Campbell has become the voice of the quiet horror of the late twentieth century, a grandmaster of the genre, a laureate of nearly all horror awards, and a British genre icon, of whom the Czech reader, for some mysterious reason, still knows too little. Let yourself be led into the forgotten alleys of English towns, into forests and dilapidated manor houses, where the voice of an experienced and convincing storyteller will explain to you what you actually caught a glimpse of out of the corner of your eye in alarm when you thought there was not a living soul around you.