{"product_id":"9781429910798","title":"Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eRamsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.   \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003ecalls Campbell \"a horror writer's horror writer,\" adding, \"His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e says his horror fiction is \"of consistently high quality,\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e praises Campbell for continuing \"to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original publication of \u003ci\u003eScared Stiff\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this edition, Campbell has added three new stories which have never before appeared in book form. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139471196400,"sku":"9781429910798","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429910798_p0.jpg?v=1763747018","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429910798","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}