
Ramsey Campbell
(John Ramsey Campbell)(Son-in-Law of A Bertram Chandler)
aka
Carl Dreadstone, Jay Ramsay
About Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most decorated author of horror, terror, suspense, dark fantasy, and supernatural fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and has been named a Grand Master of Horror.
Publishers Weekly calls Campbell "a horror writer's horror writer," adding, "His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed." Doug Winter, the noted scholar and critic, says Campbell has written "some of the most original and compelling fiction of our time, [works that dare] the precipice of reason, the human dilemma of knowing and not knowing, believing and disbelieving."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says his horror fiction is "of consistently high quality," and The Washington Post praises Campbell for continuing "to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries."
Indeed, with the original publication of Scared Stiff, Campbell almost single-handedly created the genre of erotic horror. Never had sex and death been so mesmerizingly entwined. Clive Barker, in his Introduction, says, "One of the delightfully unsettling things about these tales is the way Ramsey's brooding, utterly unique vision renders an act so familiar to us all so fretful, so strange, so chilling. Sex . . . is the perfect stuff for the horror writer, and there can be few artists working in the genre as capable of analyzing and dramatizing [this] as Campbell."
He lives in Liverpool, England, with his wife and family.
Publishers Weekly calls Campbell "a horror writer's horror writer," adding, "His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed." Doug Winter, the noted scholar and critic, says Campbell has written "some of the most original and compelling fiction of our time, [works that dare] the precipice of reason, the human dilemma of knowing and not knowing, believing and disbelieving."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says his horror fiction is "of consistently high quality," and The Washington Post praises Campbell for continuing "to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries."
Indeed, with the original publication of Scared Stiff, Campbell almost single-handedly created the genre of erotic horror. Never had sex and death been so mesmerizingly entwined. Clive Barker, in his Introduction, says, "One of the delightfully unsettling things about these tales is the way Ramsey's brooding, utterly unique vision renders an act so familiar to us all so fretful, so strange, so chilling. Sex . . . is the perfect stuff for the horror writer, and there can be few artists working in the genre as capable of analyzing and dramatizing [this] as Campbell."
He lives in Liverpool, England, with his wife and family.
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Novels
The Doll Who Ate His Mother (1976)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1977) (writing as Carl Dreadstone)
Dracula's Daughter (1977) (writing as Carl Dreadstone)
The Wolfman (1977) (writing as Carl Dreadstone)
The Face That Must Die (1979)
To Wake the Dead (1980)
aka The Parasite
The Nameless (1981)
The Claw (1982)
Night of the Claw (1983) (writing as Jay Ramsay)
Incarnate (1983)
Watch the Birdie (1984)
Obsession (1985)
The Hungry Moon (1986)
The Influence (1988)
Ancient Images (1989)
Needing Ghosts (1990)
Midnight Sun (1990)
The Count of Eleven (1991)
The Long Lost (1993)
The One Safe Place (1995)
The House on Nazareth Hill (1996)
aka Nazareth Hill
The Last Voice They Hear (1998)
Silent Children (2000)
Pact of the Fathers (2001)
The Darkest Part of the Woods (2002)
The Overnight (2004)
Secret Story (2005)
The Grin of the Dark (2007)
Thieving Fear (2008)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1977) (writing as Carl Dreadstone)
Dracula's Daughter (1977) (writing as Carl Dreadstone)
The Wolfman (1977) (writing as Carl Dreadstone)
The Face That Must Die (1979)
To Wake the Dead (1980)
aka The Parasite
The Nameless (1981)
The Claw (1982)
Night of the Claw (1983) (writing as Jay Ramsay)
Incarnate (1983)
Watch the Birdie (1984)
Obsession (1985)
The Hungry Moon (1986)
The Influence (1988)
Ancient Images (1989)
Needing Ghosts (1990)
Midnight Sun (1990)
The Count of Eleven (1991)
The Long Lost (1993)
The One Safe Place (1995)
The House on Nazareth Hill (1996)
aka Nazareth Hill
The Last Voice They Hear (1998)
Silent Children (2000)
Pact of the Fathers (2001)
The Darkest Part of the Woods (2002)
The Overnight (2004)
Secret Story (2005)
The Grin of the Dark (2007)
Thieving Fear (2008)
Collections
The Inhabitant of the Lake: And Less Welcome Tenants (1964)
Demons by Daylight (1973)
The Height of the Scream (1976)
Waking Nightmares (1981)
Dark Companions (1982)
Cold Print (1985)
Black Wine (1986) (with Charles L Grant)
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell (1987)
Scared Stiff (1987)
Ghostly Tales (1987)
Strange Things and Stranger Places (1993)
Two Obscure Tales (1993)
Alone with the Horrors (1993)
Far Away and Never (1995)
Ghosts and Grisly Things (1997)
Told by the Dead (2003)
The Book of Liverpool: A City in Short Fiction (2007) (with Roger McGough, Margaret Murphy and Brian Patten)
Demons by Daylight (1973)
The Height of the Scream (1976)
Waking Nightmares (1981)
Dark Companions (1982)
Cold Print (1985)
Black Wine (1986) (with Charles L Grant)
Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell (1987)
Scared Stiff (1987)
Ghostly Tales (1987)
Strange Things and Stranger Places (1993)
Two Obscure Tales (1993)
Alone with the Horrors (1993)
Far Away and Never (1995)
Ghosts and Grisly Things (1997)
Told by the Dead (2003)
The Book of Liverpool: A City in Short Fiction (2007) (with Roger McGough, Margaret Murphy and Brian Patten)
Chapbooks
Series contributed to
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (with Stephen Jones)
1. Best New Horror (1990)
2. Best New Horror 2 (1991)
3. Best New Horror 3 (1992)
4. Best New Horror 4 (1993)
5. The Best New Horror 5 (1994)
6. The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
1. Best New Horror (1990)
2. Best New Horror 2 (1991)
3. Best New Horror 3 (1992)
4. Best New Horror 4 (1993)
5. The Best New Horror 5 (1994)
6. The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
Anthologies edited
The Far Reaches of Fear (1976)
Superhorror (1976)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
New Terrors 2 (1980)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
Medusa (1986)
Fine Frights: Stories That Scared Me (1988)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
Deathport (1993)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994) (with Stephen Jones)
Meddling with Ghosts (2001)
Gathering the Bones: Original Stories from the World's Masters of Horror (2003) (with Jack Dann and Dennis Etchison)
Read by Dawn: Volume One (2006) (with Adèle Hartley)
Superhorror (1976)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
New Terrors 2 (1980)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
Medusa (1986)
Fine Frights: Stories That Scared Me (1988)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
Deathport (1993)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994) (with Stephen Jones)
Meddling with Ghosts (2001)
Gathering the Bones: Original Stories from the World's Masters of Horror (2003) (with Jack Dann and Dennis Etchison)
Read by Dawn: Volume One (2006) (with Adèle Hartley)
Non fiction
Ramsey Campbell, Probably (2002) (with S T Joshi)
Horror: Another 100 Best Books (2005) (with Stephen Jones)
Horror: Another 100 Best Books (2005) (with Stephen Jones)
Anthologies containing stories by Ramsey Campbell
Dark Mind Dark Heart (1962)
Over the Edge (1964)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969)
Tandem Horror Three (1969)
New Writings in Horror and the Supernatural Volume 2 (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
The Year's Best Horror Stories (1971)
Beware of the Cat (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories II (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories III (1973)
The Devil's Children (1974)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
Nameless Places (1975)
New Writings in SF 25 (1975)
The Satyr's Head: And Other Tales of Terror (1975)
Savage Heroes: Tales of Magical Fantasy (1975)
The Star Book of Horror 1 (1975)
The Devil's Kisses (1976)
The Far Reaches of Fear (1976)
The First Orbit Book of Horror Stories (1976)
Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (1976)
The Taste of Fear (1976)
The Rivals of Dracula (1977)
Whispers (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Shadows (1978)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 4 (1978)
Frights 2 (1979)
Shadows 2 (1979)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
Shadows 4 (1981)
The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1984)
Shadows 7 (1984)
Top Fantasy (1984)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985)
After Midnight (1986)
Cutting Edge (1986)
Hallowe'en Horrors (1986)
Masters of Darkness (1986)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV (1986)
The Architecture of Fear (1987)
Best of the Horror Show: An Adventure in Terror (1987)
A Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)
Ghor, Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric's Fifth-Born Son (1987)
Lord John Ten (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Gaslight and Ghosts (1988)
Prime Evil (1988)
Silver Scream (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection (1988)
Book of the Dead (1989)
Hot Blood: Tales of Provocative Horror (1989)
Scare Care (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Best New Horror (1990)
Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror (1990)
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1990)
Urban Horrors (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
Dark Voices 3: The Pan Book of Horror (1991)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
Horrorstory Volume Three (1992)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992)
Cold Cuts (1993)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
Monsters in Our Midst (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
The Best of Whispers (1994)
Borderlands 4 (1994)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Northern Chills (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Shub Niggurath Cycle (1994)
Young Blood (1994)
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995)
The Azathoth Cycle (1995)
The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (1995)
Dark Love (1995)
Dark Terrors (1995)
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995)
Made in Goatswood (1995)
Stranger by Night (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
Destination Unknown (1996)
The Disciples of Cthulhu (1996)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
The New Lovecraft Circle (1996)
Crimes of Passion (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Dark of the Night (1997)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (1997)
Millennium (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
Scaremongers (1998)
Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden (1998)
The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal (1998)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
999 (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Technohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue (1999)
White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread (1999)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)
Over the Edge (1964)
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Volume 2 (1969)
Tandem Horror Three (1969)
New Writings in Horror and the Supernatural Volume 2 (1971)
The Spawn of Cthulhu (1971)
The Year's Best Horror Stories (1971)
Beware of the Cat (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories II (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories III (1973)
The Devil's Children (1974)
The Hounds of Hell (1974)
Nameless Places (1975)
New Writings in SF 25 (1975)
The Satyr's Head: And Other Tales of Terror (1975)
Savage Heroes: Tales of Magical Fantasy (1975)
The Star Book of Horror 1 (1975)
The Devil's Kisses (1976)
The Far Reaches of Fear (1976)
The First Orbit Book of Horror Stories (1976)
Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (1976)
The Taste of Fear (1976)
The Rivals of Dracula (1977)
Whispers (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
Shadows (1978)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 4 (1978)
Frights 2 (1979)
Shadows 2 (1979)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Modern Masters of Horror (1981)
Shadows 4 (1981)
The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982)
The Gruesome Book (1983)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1984)
Shadows 7 (1984)
Top Fantasy (1984)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIII (1985)
After Midnight (1986)
Cutting Edge (1986)
Hallowe'en Horrors (1986)
Masters of Darkness (1986)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XIV (1986)
The Architecture of Fear (1987)
Best of the Horror Show: An Adventure in Terror (1987)
A Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the Decade (1987)
Ghor, Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric's Fifth-Born Son (1987)
Lord John Ten (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Gaslight and Ghosts (1988)
Prime Evil (1988)
Silver Scream (1988)
The Year's Best Fantasy First Annual Collection (1988)
Book of the Dead (1989)
Hot Blood: Tales of Provocative Horror (1989)
Scare Care (1989)
The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (1989)
aka Demons and Dreams
Best New Horror (1990)
Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror (1990)
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1990)
Urban Horrors (1990)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Third Annual Collection (1990)
Dark Voices 3: The Pan Book of Horror (1991)
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1992)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
Horrorstory Volume Three (1992)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Fifth Annual Collection (1992)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992)
Cold Cuts (1993)
The Hastur Cycle, 2nd Edition (1993)
Monsters in Our Midst (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
The Best of Whispers (1994)
Borderlands 4 (1994)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Northern Chills (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Shub Niggurath Cycle (1994)
Young Blood (1994)
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995)
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995)
The Azathoth Cycle (1995)
The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
The Best of Weird Tales (1995)
Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (1995)
Dark Love (1995)
Dark Terrors (1995)
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories (1995)
Made in Goatswood (1995)
Stranger by Night (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
Destination Unknown (1996)
The Disciples of Cthulhu (1996)
Fantasy Stories (1996)
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
The New Lovecraft Circle (1996)
Crimes of Passion (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Dark of the Night (1997)
Dark Terrors 3 (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Nine (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (1997)
Millennium (1997)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
The Crow: Shattered Lives and Broken Dreams (1998)
Dark Terrors 4 (1998)
Scaremongers (1998)
Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden (1998)
The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal (1998)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)
999 (1999)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Ten (1999)
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1999)
Technohorror: Tales of Terror, Suspense, and Intrigue (1999)
White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread (1999)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eleven (2000)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)
Short stories
| Kill Me Hideously | |||
| The Horror from the Bridge (1961) | |||
| The Insects from Shaggai (1961) | |||
| The Room in the Castle (1961) | |||
| The Church in High Street (1962) | |||
| The Inhabitant of the Lake (1962) | |||
| The Mine on Yuggoth (1962) | |||
| The Plain of Sound (1962) | |||
| The Render of the Veils (1962) | |||
| The Moon Lens (1963) | |||
| The Return of the Witch (1963) | |||
| The Will of Stanley Brooke (1963) | |||
| The Stone on the Island (1964) | |||
| The Cellars (1967) | |||
| Reply Guaranteed (1968) | |||
| The Stocking (1968) | |||
| Cold Print (1969) | |||
| Cyril (1969) | |||
| The Scar (1969) | |||
| Napier Court (1971) | |||
| Cat and Mouse (1972) | |||
| The Other House (1972) | |||
| At First Sight (1973) | |||
| Concussion (1973) | |||
| The Enchanted Fruit (1973) | |||
| The End of a Summer's Day (1973) | |||
| The Franklyn Paragraphs (1973) | |||
| The Guy (1973) | |||
| The Interloper (1973) | |||
| The Lost (1973) | |||
| Made in Goatswood (1973) | |||
| The Old Horns (1973) | |||
| Potential (1973) | |||
| The Second Staircase (1973) | |||
| The Sentinels (1973) | |||
| Litter (1974) | |||
| The Stages of the God (1974) | |||
| Vacant Possession (1974) | |||
| The Whining (1974) | |||
| Call First (1975) | |||
| Jack's Little Friend (1975) | |||
| The Man in the Underpass (1975) | |||
| Murders (1975) | |||
| The Previous Tenant (1975) | |||
| Run Through (1975) | |||
| Smoke Kiss (1975) | |||
| The Song at the Hub of the Garden (1975) | |||
| Ash (1976) | |||
| Baby (1976) | |||
| Beside the Seaside (1976) | |||
| The Companion (1976) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
| Dolls (1976) | |||
| The Height of the Scream (1976) | |||
| Horror House of Blood (1976) | |||
| In the Shadows (1976) | |||
| Lilith's (1976) | |||
| Missing (1976) | |||
| The Other Woman (1976) | |||
| The Pattern (1976) | |||
| The Telephones (1976) | |||
| The Tugging (1976) | |||
| The Words That Count (1976) | |||
| The Changer of Names (1977) | |||
| The Chimney (1977) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
| Conversion (1977) | |||
| In the Bag (1977) | |||
| Loveman's Comeback (1977) | World Fantasy (nominee) | ||
| The Seductress (1977) | |||
| The Sustenance of Hoak (1977) | |||
| Dead Letters (1978) | |||
| Drawing In (1978) | |||
| Heading Home (1978) | |||
| The Little Voice (1978) | |||
| The Pit of Wings (1978) | |||
| Above the World (1979) | |||
| Mackintosh Willy (1979) | World Fantasy | ||
| Midnight Hobo (1979) | |||
| The Mouths of Light (1979) |
