5/20/2023 0 Comments The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell![]() ![]() Ramsey Campbell’s 1981 novel The Nameless is about an archetypal fear. To better serve this “something”, cult members relinquish their names, becoming indistinguishable parts of “the Nameless”. They seem to be linked to a group in California that “one of Manson’s women had described as worse than the Family”, a group whose leader believes the worst murderers in history had all “been driven to experience the worst crimes they could on behalf of something outside themselves”. ![]() The cult are a group who take up residence in a series of derelict houses, moving constantly. Barbara, whose husband died in an accident just before the birth, has spent the intervening nine years living with the loss and guilt of what happened, but now it seems she has even more reason to feel guilty: all that time, her daughter was alive and in the hands of a cult. ![]() She was taken from her daycare centre by a man purporting to be her uncle, and the police found a body they were sure was hers (though it was too badly injured for definite identification). Successful literary agent Barbara Waugh is working late in her office when the phone rings and the voice on the other end of the line says, “Mummy.” At first she thinks it’s her assistant’s daughter, but when she says, “This is Barbara Waugh herself speaking,” the voice says, “Yes, Mummy, I know.”īut Barbara’s daughter Angela, born thirteen years ago, is supposedly dead. ![]()
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