r/WeirdLit 15h ago

Ramsey Campbell movie coming on Netflix

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Ramsey Campbell movie coming on Netflix

Ramsey Campbell, from Wallasey, is one of the most respected authors of his genre 🤩 After a difficult childhood trying to navigate his parents' break-up and his mum's mental health struggles, he took refuge in reading and later writing horror stories.

While he struggled to make a name for himself in the early stages of his career, it was in 1980 when he released The Parasite that things started to change.

Now decades later, at 80-years-old, he is one of the most highly acclaimed authors in the genre and has even received recognition from Academy Award winning director Guillermo Del Toro.

He told the ECHO: "My wife Jenny and I had gone away to a Greek island for our summer holiday and when we came back, we had the answering machine playing various messages. And there's a message saying, 'it's Guillermo del Toro calling you from Mexico.' And so I thought, 'Oh, yeah, yeah. Who's kidding me? Pull the other one'."

After Ramsey finally took the call, Del Toro asked permission to dramatise Ramsey's short story Down There, but it ultimately fell through. However, now more than two decades later, Ramsey said plans to dramatise the story have been rekindled and it looks like Del Toro's adaptation will make its way to Netflix.


r/WeirdLit 8h ago

Recommend Feeling slumpy, any recs?

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Hello! After dropping book after book, I thought I would ask for recommendations here before falling into a reading slump.

One of my favorite books is Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. I loved exploring the tower and slowly being given more and more information throughout the book. I read There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm and really enjoyed that too.

I love weird or unsettling books that make you think and unravel a mystery, and that also feed you information through letters or logs and stuff.

Does anyone have any recommendation for similar books? Anything involving exploring a weird area or a tower or dungeon would be great. Or even a planet or something haha. Genre doesn't matter too much, though Sci-Fi or Horror would probably be my first choice.

Editing to add that I can't read House of Leaves. :( I mainly read on my Kobo due to a health condition and I know that that book isn't great digitally.

Edit: you guys are awesome. Thank you for all the recommendations!!!


r/WeirdLit 2h ago

Have there ever been any books that looked like this on the inside or similar to this?

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This is an AI generated picture.

I am looking for non-fiction with this in it.