Title: The Overnight
Title Record # 158073
Author: Ramsey Campbell
Date: 2004-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Ramsey Campbell
Date: 2004-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: The bookstore’s shelves are put in order every night, but every morning, books are found lying all over the floor, many damp and damaged beyond repair. The store’s computers keep acting up, and even when the machines are off, they seem to glow with a spectral gray light. Things soon go from bad to worse. A salesclerk abruptly loses his ability to read. One employee accuses another of making sexual advances. A hit-and-run in the parking lot claims a life. The security monitors display half-seen things crawling between the stacks. Desperate to pass a company inspection, the manager musters his staff for an overnight inventory. When the last customers reluctantly depart, leaving almost-visible trails of slime shining behind them, the doors are locked, sealing the staff inside for a final orgy of shelving. The damp, grey, silent things that have been lurking in the basement and hiding in the fog may move slowly, but they are inexorable. This bookstore is the doorway to a hell unlike any other.
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Win | 2004 IHG | Best Novel |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Overnight | 2004-06-00 | Ramsey Campbell | PS Publishing | 1-902880-96-X | £35.00?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
xv+ 414 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | J. K. Potter | |
The Overnight | 2004-06-00 | Ramsey Campbell | PS Publishing | 1-902880-95-1 | £60.00?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
414 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | J. K. Potter | |
The Overnight | 2005-03-00 | Ramsey Campbell | Tor | 0-765-31299-9 | $24.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
396 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | David Bowers | |
The Overnight | 2006-04-00 | Ramsey Campbell | Tor | 0-765-35153-6 | $7.99?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD |
390 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
The Overnight | 2012-09-01 | Ramsey Campbell | Drugstore Indian Press | 978-1-84863-491-6 | £6.99?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP |
362 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Ron Lewis (2004) in All Hallows, February 2004
- Review by Simon Morden (2004) in Vector 238
- Review by Tim Pratt (2005) in Locus, #531 April 2005
- Review by uncredited (2005) in Vector 241
- Review by Rick Kleffel (2005) in Cemetery Dance, #52, 2005
- Review by Paula Guran (2005) in Cemetery Dance, #52, 2005
- Review by Gahan Wilson (2005) in Realms of Fantasy, August 2005
- Review by S. T. Joshi (2005) in Studies in Weird Fiction, #27 Spring 2005