The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell Review by Gary Fry In a relatively recent review, I suggested that, just as "the wrong man" had become a central, recurring theme in the work of Hitchcock, the "misunderstood doomsayer" has similarly come to preoccupy Ramsey Campbell's later novels. By this I mean that there's usually a character who perceives a truth that others are un willing to accept, resulting in much frustration and , ultimately, enforced isolation on the part of he (and it usually is a he ) who cries wolf. But now, in his latest work, Campbell appears to be pushing that sense of social exclusion even further. Without giving too much away, the central character of his previous novel, The Lonely Lands , is forced to avoid integration with others in fear of contaminating them with a mysterious ailment that has befallen him. And i ndeed, some thing of the same stripe seems to be occurring in this, his new book, a...
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