Ramsey Campbell's The Grin of the Dark

Horror readers will be pleased to find out that critically acclaimed British author Ramsey Campbell has a new novel out from Tor Books: The Grin of the Dark. Advance praise is ample, including this from Booklist: "Anotherexcellent piece of inventive, chilling suspense. Unemployed London film critic Simon Lester receives an apparent lucky break when his old film professor commissions him to write a book about forgotten silent-film comedian Tubby Thackeray. Once deemed as good as Chaplin's and Keaton's, Thackeray's movies are mysteriously missing from cinematic archives. In tracking down references and attempting to solve the riddle of Thackeray's anomalous absence, Simon treks across the seamier landscape of film production, from porn factories to Amsterdam brothels. After many maddening false leads, encounters with sinister clowns, and e-mail exchanges with a particularly snide film buff, Simon stumbles on a disturbing secret about Thackeray's real identity that may have less to do with comedy than with an ancient evil."

Campbell is a master of atmosphere and the scare. Check this one out.