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

Ramsey Campbell

Macmillan, Sep 1, 2005 - Fiction - 448 pages

Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most decorated 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. Included here are "In the Bag," which won the British Fantasy Award, and two World Fantasy Award-winning stories, "The Chimney" and the classic "Mackintosh Willy."

Campbell crowns the book with a length preface which traces his early publication history, discusses his youthful correspondence with August Derleth, illuminates the influence of H.P. Lovecraft on his early work, and gives an account of the creation of each story and the author's personal assessment of the works' flaws and virtues.

In its first publication, a decade ago, Alone With the Horrors won both the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. For this new edition, Campbell has added one of his very first published stories, a Lovecraftian classic, "The Tower from Yuggoth." From this early, Cthulhian tale, to later works that showcase Campbell's growing mastery of mood and character, Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer's development of his craft.



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Contents

• So Far: 11
• The Tower from Yuggoth 1961: 23
• Cold Print 1966: 45
• The Scar 1967: 59
• The Interloper 1968: 73
• The Guy 1968: 81
• The End of a Summers Day 1968: 91
• The Man in the Underpass 1973: 97
• The Companion 1973: 107
• Call First 1974: 117
• Heading Home 1974: 123
• In the Bag 1974: 127
• Baby 1974: 137
• The Chimney 1975: 153
• The Brood 1976: 169
• The Gap 1977: 181
• The Voice of the Beach 1977: 193
• Out of Copyright 1977: 219
• Above the World 1977: 227
• Mackintosh Willy 1977: 237
• The Show Goes On 1978: 251
• The Ferries 1978: 263
• Midnight Hobo 1978: 275
• The Depths 1978: 287
• Down There 1978: 305
• The Fit 1979: 317
• Hearing Is Believing 1979: 329
• The Hands 1980: 337
• Again 1980: 347
• Just Waiting 1983: 357
• Seeing the World 1983: 367
• Old Clothes 1983: 373
• Apples 1984: 383
• The Other Side 1985: 391
• Where the Heart Is 1986: 403
• Boiled Alive 1986: 411
• Another World 1987: 421
• End of the Line 1991: 433

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
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2005
• ISBN: 1429910801, 9781429910804
• Length: 448 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror