For Dominic and Jim, it helps to support the suspicions they already had about their teacher.ĭominic has an eerie experience when going to pick up and walk Mrs. Noble’s father gives a lecture at their school and his discussion quickly runs off the rails with references to corpses, graves, rats, and speaking to the dead. A particularly surreal and frightening event takes place when Mr. Noble’s infant daughter, Tina, as well as his willowing wife. Norris goes to.įor the rest of the school year and beyond, Dominic and his best mate and school chum, Jim, will be enthralled with uncovering the secret of the creepy Mr. Noble at his new school, Holy Ghost, but also the fact that the very same Mr. He is doubly shocked when the person he thinks he saw ends up being not only his homeroom teacher Mr. However, Dominic swears he sees a tall, lanky male figure pushing a child’s pram through Anfield Cemetery. Dominic’s parents palm this off as the grief she is suffering from. Norris claims that the head of their church can bring back the dead to those who have lost loved ones…and perhaps a bit more. They had joined a new church not long before his passing, and Mrs. It begins with the spooky ramblings of their elderly neighbor, Mrs. It is what he first spies there that will begin the nightmare that will haunt him for the rest of this novel and throughout the action of this unsettling trilogy. The window in Dominic’s room gives him a great view of the Liverpool cemetery known as Anfield. During the course of this year, Dominic and his two best friends are going to experience a coming-of-age that they never could have predicted in their wildest imaginations. Somewhere around the year 1863, a work of the occult called Revelations of Glaaki, Volume 9, On the Uses of the Dead proposed that ‘What the dead behold, they may become.’ The action of THE SEARCHING DEAD is set in 1952 in a small village outside of London, and our protagonist is a young schoolboy by the name of Dominic Sheldrake. THE SEARCHING DEAD is the first installment in the trilogy, and may also be one of the most effectively frightening novels that horror master Ramsey Campbell has ever penned. Originally released in the UK back in 2016, publisher Flame Tree Press will be releasing all three titles in this trilogy as part of their Fiction Without Frontiers campaign.

The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell