The Village Killings and Other Novellas by Ramsey Campbell -- review and interview
The Village Killings and Other Novellas by Ramsey Campbell Review and interview by Gary Fry For many years, the novella hadn’t featured much in Ramsey Campbell’s output, the only exceptions being “Medusa” (1973) and “Needing Ghosts” (1990). Given that many of the field’s finest works have been in this form – “The Colour out of Space”, “The Willows”, and “The White People” to name but three – I for one found this unusual. But more recently, we’ve seen a sudden interest in the novella on the author’s part, starting with 2013’s double treat of “The Last Revelation of Gla’aki” and “The Pretence” , and then “The Booking” in 2016. Last year (2020), we also got to read “The Enigma of the Flat Policeman” , a lengthy piece Campbell had written in his youth and intriguingly annotated by his mature self as an investigation into creative consciousness. My previous reviews for each of the post-millennium works can be found by clicking the links with which I’ve loaded their titles above. A re...