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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780765346827 ISBN: 0765346826 Label: Tor Books Manufacturer: Tor Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: October 01, 2004 Publisher: Tor Books Release Date: August 05, 2004 Studio: Tor Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: For decades the lives of the Price family have been snarled with the fate of the ancient forest of Goodmanswood. There, Dr. Lennox Price discovered an hallucinogenic moss which quickly became the focus of a cult. Though the moss is long gone, the whole forest can now affect the minds of visitors. After Lennox is killed trying to return to his beloved wood, his widow sees and hears him in the trees-or is it a dark version of the Green Man that caresses her with leafy hands? Lennox's grandson heeds a call to lie in his lover's arms in the very heart of the forest-and cannot help but wonder what the fruit of that love will be. And Heather, Lennox's daughter, who turned her back on her father's mysteries and sought sanctuary in the world of facts and history? Goodmanswood summons her as well . . . Average Rating:
 Rating:  - More painful than pleasurableOne of the ways to tell a good book is by how quickly you read it, so how much you can not put it done. Along the same lines, if you can't wait to pick it up again, then it is striking the right chords with you and is something to recommend. Unfortunately The Darkest Part of The Woods failed both tests for me. After a week or so, I started dreading picking it up to read instead of looking forward to it. And then it took way longer than it usually does for me to finish the book; near ... Read More Rating:  - Methodical, creeping horrorI can separate horror stories into two broad categories: action and atmosphere. All stories contain varying degrees of each. With the non-stop action of a thrilling, apocalyptic zombie adventure lying near one end of the scale and the creeping and unsettling menace of the traditional ghost story lying near the other end. The Darkest Part of the Woods typifies the idea of atmospheric horror. Campbell's account of a family's interconnection with a particularly sinister forest succeeds in slowly ... Read More Rating: - open mindBooks should be approached with an open mind, I've always believed. Darkest/Woods is one of those novels that is more atmosphere than adventure. If you allow it to proceed at its own pace, it will weave its web around your mind. Subtle - no Stephen King antics here - but effective, it's sense of threat and menace grows a bit with every chapter. It's not Nightmare on Elm St, but I'll tell you, I sure wouldn't set foot in that woods. Campbell is a capable writer. Rating: - Beware the Fine PrintRamsey Campbell is a bit of an aquired taste. This most literate of horror writers is not out to race your pulse or gross you out. Thrill seekers should search elsewhere. But for those of you able to settle into moody, carefully crafted prose, the subtle delights set him apart from his run-and-gun contemporaries. If most horror fiction is beer to be guzzled, this is cognac to be savored. Ramsey Campbell has obviously had some experience with psychedelics. Any knowledge you may have in ... Read More Rating:  - The horror of Airport book purchases...I was given this book by a friend with great taste in books, so I eagerly started it. After the first few chapters, I could not wait for it to end. The ultimate horror of this book is reserved for those compelled to finish any book they start. As has been mentioned in other reviews. WE GET IT. The woods are "SCARY" and their presence is pervasive. The characters themselves, despite the author's intent, are also wooden, and if the reader experiences any fear, it is the fear ... Read More 
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