John Ramsey Campbell Books

Before I could prevent myself, I jerked up the flashlight beam. What did I see? Not much for long, but far too much. The hands belonged to a shape occupying a solitary dilapidated chair, its substance seemingly derived from the surrounding grime. A soft, insidious sound hinted at the restlessness of this figure, and I had the dreadful thought that it might be trying to breathe. I glimpsed a face—eyes as black and unstable as its lopsided bulk, nostrils dilating, lips sagging into a grimace before struggling to form another expression or speak—before the figure collapsed. This collection features Ramsey Campbell’s recent tales of supernatural horror and psychological disintegration, uncovering disquiet in familiar settings. A Bingo game hides a dark secret, while car number plates convey monstrous messages. A headphone commentary leads a visitor into terror, and remnants of a funfair awaken worse horrors. A modern retelling of a fairy tale is both grim and Grimm, and a beach search brings an unwelcome helper. Childhood memories stir nightmares, and the influence of the first great horror film refuses to fade. Even a Beatles tour contains madness, while brass rubbing stirs spectral forces. Halloween is marked by an apparition, and a bird hide conceals a sinister watcher. The dead letter office communicates with the restless dead, and the passwords we rely on become a source of panic. The collection is illustrated by award-winn

RAMSEY CAMPBELL, PROBABLY, originally published by PS back in 2002 since which time the author has expanded some of the essays, added others and generally tinkered around with the running order . . . as is his wont. Thus the original 140,000-or-so words compiled from Ramsey s non-fiction of three decades have been considerably (and entertainingly) expanded to represent getting on for a full half-a-century of Campbelliana now well in excess of 150,000 words. The subjects range from the perils of authorship to the delights of amateur fiction and film, from drugs to nightmares, from the Highgate Vampire to the Dracula Society s marching song. Friends are remembered and so is Mary Whitehouse. A seminal study of schoolgirl spanking is brought up to date. Many thoughts on the history of horror fiction are included. And, at last, it is revealed why Harlan Ellison® is responsible. May the reader variously laugh, weep, ponder, disagree and turn uneasily in bed. Time for another taster boy, we really do spoil you folks!

This companion volume to the complete PS Publishing edition of The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome Tenants collects all of Ramsey Campbell’s remaining Lovecraftian stories that are of less than novel length. It begins with the first tale Campbell wrote immediately after that first Arkham House book, and comes up to date with the novella The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, his recent return to his own Lovecraftian territory, where he rediscovers Lovecraft’s first principles and strips away the accretions of the mythos that developed after Lovecraft’s death.The book includes the first publication anywhere of the first drafts of “Cold Print” and “The Franklyn Paragraphs”, and offers the bonus of “Mushrooms from Merseyside”, all his Lovecraftian tales inhumanly transmuted into limericks. The book also collects his Lovecraftian non-fiction, not least his transcription of an English correspondent’s letters to Lovecraft and a close reading of three Lovecraft tales.Like the companion volume, this book is superbly illustrated by Randy Broecker in the great tradition of Weird Tales.

Featuring "Lost for Words" by Ramsey Campbell, this issue showcases a blend of original stories from both veteran and emerging writers. Darrell Schweitzer and Mark Samuels contribute unique narratives, while Curtis M. Lawson explores a science fiction/horror fusion. Katherine Kerestman delivers a compelling vampirism tale, and other authors like Scott J. Couturier and Geoffrey Reiter provide unsettling glimpses into the strange. Additionally, a classic reprint of Algernon Blackwood's inaugural weird tale enriches the collection.

“An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that” - Guillermo del Toro 1952. On a school trip to France teenager Dominic Sheldrake begins to suspect his teacher Christian Noble has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. Meanwhile a widowed neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives, who prove much harder to get rid of. As Dominic and his friends Roberta and Jim investigate, they can’t suspect how much larger and more terrible the link between these mysteries will become. A monstrous discovery beneath a church only hints at terrors that are poised to engulf the world as the trilogy brings us to the present day… FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

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From ancient curses kept alive in internet chat-rooms to malevolent children's TV characters acquiring lives of their own, Phobic shines a torch into the unlit areas of the modern subconscious and suggests the more we know, the more we realise how worried we really should be.

One of the most respected living horror writers in the world, Campbell has more awards for his horror tales than any other author, and "is likely to be remembered as the leading horror writer of our generation," according to S.T. Joshi. One of the heirs apparent to early-twentieth-century American author H. P. Lovecraft, Campbell's horror stories are often set in contemporary Merseyside, England, his own hometown, and involve quite ordinary characters. His unsettling, dreamlike prose, however, transforms his work into very effective horror fiction. The fourteen stories in this collection are: “Passing Through Peacehaven” “Peep” “Getting It Wrong” “The Room Beyond” “Holes for Faces” “The Rounds” “The Decorations” “The Address” “Recently Used” “Chucky Comes to Liverpool” “With the Angels” “Behind the Doors” “Holding the Light” “The Long Way”

Punters, salutations! Please start here if you like, or possibly sample a tale or two. You’ll be perfectly safe. Presenting sixty years’ worth of my published shorts, a personal selection, was Pete’s suggestion—Pete Crowther, I mean, the man behind PS.

"More than thirty years have passed since the events of The Searching Dead. Now married with a young son, Dominic Sheldrake believes that he and his family are free of the occult influence of Christian Noble. Although Toby is experiencing nocturnal seizures and strange dreams, Dominic and Claudine have found a facility that deals with children suffering from his condition, which appears to be growing widespread. Are their visions simply dreams, or truths few people dare envisage? How may Christian Noble be affecting the world now, and how has his daughter grown up? Soon Dominic will have to confront the figures from his past once more and call on his old friends for aid against forces that may overwhelm them all. As he learns the truth behind Toby's experiences, not just his family is threatened but his assumptions about the world..." -- cover page.