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John Ramsey Campbell

    January 4, 1946

    Ramsey Campbell is a British writer regarded by many critics as one of the great masters of horror fiction. His work is celebrated for its depth and unsettling atmosphere, often delving into psychological terror and disturbing themes. Campbell's skill in building suspense and exploring the darker aspects of the human psyche establishes him as a standout author in the genre. Future generations will likely view him as the leading horror writer of his era, on par with legends like Lovecraft or Blackwood.

    John Ramsey Campbell
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    The Searching Dead (Fiction Without Frontiers)
    Penumbra No. 2 (2021)
    Visions from Brichester
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    By the Light of My Skull
    • 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.

      Visions from Brichester
    • Penumbra No. 2 (2021)

      A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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.

      Penumbra No. 2 (2021)
    • “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.

      The Searching Dead (Fiction Without Frontiers)
    • Stalin's Gulag at War

      • 280 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Stalin's Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. The author explores a diverse array of issues, including mass death, informal practices, and the responses of prisoners and personnel to the war.

      Stalin's Gulag at War
    • Dead Reckonings No. 30 (Fall 2021)

      • 122 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

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      Dead Reckonings No. 30 (Fall 2021)
    • 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.

      Phobic