THE

NAMELESS

by

RAMSEY CAMPBELL

Macmillan Publishing Co.. Inc. (1981) First Printing

CONDITION:  VERY GOOD except for inside front and back covers and the front flyleaf (see photo #5), from which something has been torn off, leaving yellow marks… and yet it does not appear to have been a library book, even though the jacket is protected by a Brodart jacket cover.  If not for these markings, I’d double or triple my asking price!  Also has old price tag from bookseller on front which is clearly visible in photograph #1.

The world of horror and demonic terror where children are stolen and turned into monsters…

Commentaries on line:

What a nailbiting and eerie book! Barbara Waugh's daughter was kidnapped and presumably killed when being 4 years old. Now Barbara Waugh receives calls from her daughter. Is it really her? Who was killed back then? Was her daughter abducted by a sinister sect that calls itself 'the nameless'? A parent tries to find if her daughter's still alive. Quick paced story with a nasty twist at the end. Absolutely recommended.

Still a powerful and effective horror story if you don't mind the inherently grim subject matter.

The smothering atmosphere of grimy desolation in The Nameless unnerves and displays Campbell's mastery of urban horror. I was in awe at his creative ability to gather such ominous charge out of description. The whirling, paranoid descriptions of walking through the streets... brilliant.

It’s really all I could ask for in a horror book.

I think this is one of his best, involving a very nasty cult, a mother searching for her missing daughter, and a house no one in their right mind would want to go in to.

Disturbing book, surprising ending, good writing tone, decent characterization, certainly worth reading for Horror fans.

This book is a brilliantly written, subtle, eerie and engaging masterpiece. One of Campbell’s finest novels. The horror elements work beautifully but it also functions as a novel on every parent’s worst fear. The ending is both bleak and true, at least in how I read it.

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