![]() ![]() Clare begins an investigation to try and learn the identity of the man and why he appeared to be carrying a human arm… The Doll Who Ate His Mother was a remarkable debut novel, nominated for the 1977 World Fantasy Award.Īfter a strange man steps in front of Clare Frayn’s car on a wild, rainy night causing her to lose control of the vehicle with the resulting accident claiming her brother’s life. ![]() Included in this flood of quality horror fiction a collection by Ramsey Campbell might well have been overlooked, but with his first novel, The Doll Who Ate His Mother, the real British Invasion had begun, and the works of previous authors were merely opening salvos. A second British Invasion came in the horror genre a decade later with novels by Dennis Wheatley and John Blackburn and a wealth of short story collections by Charles Birkin. Rock music gave America its British Invasion in the 1960s, starting with the Liverpool band The Beatles along with the Rolling Stones, the Who and many others. ![]()
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