Born to the Dark (Three Births of Daoloth Series #2)

by Ramsey Campbell

Overview

"Campbell’s writing is intimate, darkly funny, and deeply human, balancing edge-of-the-seat suspense with heartfelt character development. This delightfully unsettling sequel does not disappoint." — Publishers Weekly

Book 2 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.

1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His and Lesley’s small son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever. Roberta Parkin has become a journalist and infiltrates the new version of the Nobles’ cult, but are the experiences it offers too powerful for her to control? In order to rescue his son from the cult, if he can, Dominic must undergo them too...

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787585638
Publisher:	Flame Tree Publishing
Publication date:	10/19/2021
Series:	Three Births of Daoloth Series , #2
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Ramsey Campbell has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Editorial Reviews

09/27/2021

World Fantasy Life Achievement Award winner Campbell’s electrifying second installment to his Three Births of Daoloth horror trilogy (after The Searching Dead) finds Dominic Sheldrake, the teen protagonist of book one, all grown up. He’s now a film professor with a wife and child—but he’s still struggling against the sinister machinations of cult leader Christian Noble. Dominic’s son, Toby, suffers from nightmares and nocturnal seizures, and Dominic and his wife, Lesley, send him to the Safe to Sleep facility in a last-ditch attempt to improve in his condition. Then Dominic discovers that the facility is run by Christian and his daughter, Tina, who are scheming to raise the dead. Now Dominic will stop at nothing to save his son from being used as their pawn. Campbell’s writing is intimate, darkly funny, and deeply human, balancing edge-of-the-seat suspense with heartfelt character development. This delightfully unsettling sequel does not disappoint. Agent: John Jarrold, John Jarrold Literary. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

For sheer ability to compose disturbing, evocative prose, he is unmatched in the horror/fantasy field... He turns the traditional horror novel inside out, and makes it work brilliantly

Fangoria

"I’m very much looking forward to the third and final installment of this excellent trilogy." — Horror Delve

From the Publisher

Ramsey Campbell’s work is tremendous

Jonathan Ross

"A return to and a revisioning of some of his earliest imaginings, the trilogy is a kind of autobiography of its protagonist, in which his lifelong struggle with a supernatural agency occurs against the backdrop of post-war British history. The result is a magisterial work, though such a description scants the novels’ propulsive readability. It’s another remarkable achievement in a career full of them."

Locus Magazine Review of The Searching Dead

"Avid readers of cosmic horror will be satisfied with the read and will no doubt find themselves ordering the next and final volume, The Way of the Worm, as soon as possible."

Rougeski Reads

An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that

Guillermo del Toro

Perhaps the most important living writer in the horror fiction field

David Hartwell

"Campbell is on familiar ground with the use of dreams, children in jeopardy and a misunderstood protagonist at odds with almost all the familiar anchors in his life – his family, his friends, his workplace – while in the background there is the looming and strengthening threat of horror from beyond. Is there any hope for mankind?"

Concatenation

Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good

Stephen King

One of the few who can scare and disturb as well as make me laugh out loud. His humour is very black but very funny, and that’s a rare gift to have

Mark Morris