Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991

Ramsey Campbell

Tom Doherty Associates, Sep 1, 2005 - Fiction - 448 pages

Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most honored author of horror 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.

Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell's writing, including several award-winners.

Campbell crowns the book with a length preface-revised for this edition-which traces his early publication history, discusses his youthful correspondence with August Derleth, and illuminates the influence of H.P. Lovecraft on his work.
Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer's development of his craft.

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Review: Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991

User Review  - Bandit - Goodreads

This was a book I really wanted to like. Up to now I've had very mixed experiences with Campbell's work. I really liked Ancient Images, although more so for the subject matter than the execution ...

Review: Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991

User Review  - Ratforce - Goodreads

You may also enjoy the classic horror of Ramsey Campbell. Like Bradbury, he writes character-driven novels with a strong sense of place that adds quite a bit to the creep factor of his stories. Try some of his short stories to get a taste of his writing style.

About the author

Ramsey Campbell has won more awards than any other living author of horror or dark fantasy, including four World Fantasy Awards, nine British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards. Critically acclaimed both in the US and in England, Campbell is widely regarded as one of the genre's literary lights for both his short fiction and his novels. His classic novels, such as The Face that Must Die, The Doll Who Ate His Mother, and The Influence, set new standards for horror as literature. His collection, Scared Stiff, virtually established the subgenre of erotic horror.

Ramsey Campbell's works have been published in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and several other languages. He has been President of the British Fantasy Society and has edited critically acclaimed anthologies, including Fine Frights. Campbell's best known works in the US are Obsession, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, and Nazareth Hill.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991
• Author: Ramsey Campbell
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2005
• ISBN: 0765307685, 9780765307682
• Length: 448 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror