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Title:Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
Author:Ramsey Campbell
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:First Edition
Pages:Pages: 240 pages
Published:September 7th 2002 by Tor Books (first published 1987)
Categories:Horror. Short Stories. Fiction. Adult Fiction. Erotica. Anthologies. Fantasy. Weird Fiction

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Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers Weekly calls Campbell "a horror writer's horror writer," adding, "His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed." The Cleveland Plain Dealer says his horror fiction is "of consistently high quality," and The Washington Post praises Campbell for continuing "to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries."

The original publication of Scared Stiff almost created the sub-genre of erotic horror. Never had sex and death been so mesmerizingly entwined. Clive Barker, in his Introduction, says, "One of the delightfully unsettling things about these tales is the way Ramsey's brooding, utterly unique vision renders an act so familiar to us all so fretful, so strange, so chilling. Sex . . . is the perfect stuff for the horror writer, and there can be few artists working in the genre as capable of analyzing and dramatizing [this] as Campbell."

For this edition, Campbell has added three new stories which have never before appeared in book form.


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Original Title: Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death
ISBN: 0765300044 (ISBN13: 9780765300041)
Edition Language: English
Literary Awards: Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Fiction Collection (1987), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection (1988)

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Get freaked out and wake up your pants at the same time; or just freak out your pants.

I read this book because one of my friends at work recommended it, stating that he thought it was like American Horror Story.I can kind of see that, but mostly I felt the stories were practically the same, with just a little bit changed here or there. I think the first one, Dolls, was my favorite.

A very disturbing collection of longer short stories you'll find in here! Elaborately written, interesting details, more mystery than horror. Not 100% my style but worth a look in any case!

Sex and horror are two very intimate and individual things. Campbell has brought forth a number of stories in this anthology that manage to somehow both arouse and terrify. Looking back at it, even though I finished it just last night, I am having a hard time with where I sit with this book. It's not a matter if it was good or not, or if it succeeded in what it was supposed to do, for on both those things it succeeded extremely well. 'Scared Stiff' contains a wide enough variety of stories

Excellent collection of erotic horror stories by Ramsey Campbell. Includes:DollsThe Other WomanLilith'sThe Seductress (this was later adapted for the television series "The Hunger") StagesLoveman's ComebackMerry MayThe Limits of FantasyThe Body In The WindowKill Me Hideously (What is it about horror writers always writing about their crazy fans)



A reread for a project I'm currently working on.