The Booking Black Labyrinth Book 3
Dark Fantasy Psychological Horror Occult Fiction Young Adult Horror British Weird Fiction Metafictional Horror Limited-Edition Collector's Fiction
Collectors of modern dark fantasy consider “The Booking: Black Labyrinth Book 3” one of the most elusive Ramsey Campbell hardcovers ever issued. This is copy #166 of only 400 produced, a true first-edition, numbered and hand-signed by Campbell himself. Bound in heavyweight boards and illustrated with interior plates commissioned for this limited run, the book is already out of print and rarely surfaces on the secondary market in the clean, very-good condition offered here—pages pristine, no ex-library stamps or previous-owner markings, just light shelf scuffing that keeps it from being graded fine.
Set inside the metafictional “Booking” universe Campbell began in the earlier volumes, Black Labyrinth Book 3 pulls readers into a living library where stories exact a blood-price from anyone who opens them. Campbell’s trademark Liverpool gloom, labyrinthine sentence-work and creeping dread reach a crescendo as the adolescent protagonists—now older, guilt-wracked and pursued by paper-white librarians—race to close the Black Labyrinth before the narratives rewrite reality itself. The YA/Adult crossover tone makes it an ideal gift for both seasoned horror aficionados and younger readers ready to graduate from mainstream fantasy into something far more psychologically unsettling.
Owning this particular copy means possessing a cornerstone of twenty-first-century British weird fiction: a signed, limited, numbered artifact that usually retails in the $300–$400 range when it can be found at all. Display it on a shelf of modern firsts or slip it into a mylar-covered brodart for long-term archival safety; either way, you hold one of the scarcest Campbell limiteds released in the last decade.
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