Ramsey Campbell

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  • Bibliography:
    96 Books
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    February 1977
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    November 2024
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Crimes of Passion (Sep-2005)

Book List in Order: 96 titles

  • Superhorror

  • New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

  • The Parasite

  • The Nameless

    A new edition of the sinister masterpiece, now in development at Netflix.“Was that an indrawn breath, or a hiss of static? She heard someone dialling on another line..."Barbara Waugh’s daughter Angela was kidnapped aged four, and when a disfigure...

  • Night of the Claw

    Unknowingly, he brought the claw home. Beautiful, hypnotic, ancient, it was the sacred -- and deadly -- talisman of the fabled Leopard Men of Africa. Unsuspected, it would insinuate its way into his mind, bringing horrifying destruction into his h...

  • Incarnate

    Molly, a young television production assistant, and her lover, Martin, struggle for survival against a monstrous, diabolical force created by Molly and her fellow participants in a scientific experiment in prophetic dreaming...

  • New Terrors I

  • Cold Print

    Horror lurks in the abyss beneath the cold stone flooring of the church on High Street, in the unseen depths of the lake, and deep within the dark hillside under the summoning moon in a nightmarish collection of stories...

  • Dark Companions

    COME CLOSE, MEET YOUR DARK COMPANIONS… Poor Elaine is working late at the office again, with no company but the smell of dust and old paper. But something sinister moves in the elevator shaft…something ghastly, down there. In a way, the worst ...



  • The Doll Who Ate His Mother

  • The Face That Must Die

    Ramsey Campbell’s daring look into the mind of a psychotic killer was published in truncated form in 1979; an expanded edition was later published in 1982. The paranoid outlook of the book's main character, Horridge, is a grim commentary on a bl...

  • Obsession

    Four young friends, troubled by personal problems, find their wishes horrifyingly granted and twenty-five years later, still haunted by the tragic consequences of their wishes, try to break their pacts with the Devil...

  • Black Wine

  • The Hungry Moon

    "In every respect, Campbell's best." - Kirkus ReviewsIsolated on the moors of northern England, the town of Moonwell has remained faithful to their Druid traditions and kept their old rituals alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn’t about to ...

  • Next Time You'll Know Me

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...

  • Fine Frights

  • Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death

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    Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers Weekly calls Campbell ""a horror writer's horror writer,"" adding, ""His control of mood a...

  • Influence

    Now a major Netflix movie."This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another." Publishers WeeklyQueenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, ...

  • Ancient Images

    "Campbell has mastered the art of generating a sense of sustained unease." The Washington Post. A new masterpiece from the master of suspense.Tower of Fear is a lost horror film starring Karloff and Lugosi. A film historian who locates a copy dies wh...



  • Demons by Daylight

  • Midnight Sun

  • Waking Nightmares

  • The Count of Eleven

    Just when he feels that his life is on the right track, Jack Orchard finds that a chain letter he has thrown away has brought him terrible luck, and he is determined to make things right again by keeping the chain going, no matter what. Reprint....

  • Alone with the Horrors

    “A seminal collection of one of late 20th century’s most important horror writers . . . every horror fan should have on their bookshelf.” -- SF Site ReviewsRamsey Campbell is perhaps the world’s most decorated author of horror...

  • Strange Things and Stranger Places

    A collection of outstanding horror fiction contains two novellas, Needing Ghosts and Medusa, along with eight shorter works about such places as forbidden castle ruins where children's games can be transformed into chilling reality. R...

  • Ultratumba

  • DEATHPORT

    Horror writers such as Ron Dee, Matthew J. Costello, Chet Williamson, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro have contributed to a story collection about the terrifying world of Dry Plains International Airport. Original....

  • The Long Lost

    David and Joelle's long-lost relative, Gwendolen, helps them recover from a family tragedy, but soon the young couple is caught in a web of evil and dark secrets seemingly spun from Gwendolen's white hair. Reprint....

  • The One Safe Place

    Don and Suzanne Travis and their adolescent son, Marshall, become involved in an escalating web of brutality, murder, and kidnapping after Don testifies against a man who attacked him after a minor traffic violation. Reprint....



  • Made in Goatswood

  • Nazareth Hill

    The emotional turmoil of a teenage girl's adolescence is matched by her father's midlife crisis, and it becomes clear that this battle is only one stage in a centuries-old war between authority and rebellion, innocence and suspicion. Reprint....

  • Ghosts and Grisly Things

    A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and an eight-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, Campbell may be the genres most decorated writer. Publishers Weekly hails him as a master of the horror genre, adding, He does more than jar the ner...

  • The Last Voice They Hear

    A voice from the past interrupts Geoff's happy life as his long-lost brother Ben challenges Geoff to solve the murders of young couples occurring in the area, murders that Ben himself may have committed. Reprint....

  • Silent Children

    Once upon a time there was a man who loved children. He loved them so much he tried to save them from their imperfect parents. Unfortunately, Hector Woollie didn't work for Child Protective Services . . . and the children he rescued, he murdered.Once...

  • Pact of the Fathers


    Daniella Logan, daughter of a film impresario, is stunned to see a group of robed men performing a ritual above the newly-turned earth of her father's grave. Daniella's father and his friends--politicians, newspaper magnates, highly-paid actors, ...

  • Meddling with Ghosts

    This is a collection of ghost stories in the 'antiquarian' tradition established by M. R. James, who excelled at the atmospheric portrayal of legitimate scholarly interest descending into unwise curiosity, with almost invariably tragic results. Ja...

  • The Darkest Part of the Wood

    For decades the lives of the Price family have been snarled with the fate of the ancient forest of Goodmanswood. There, Dr. Lennox Price discovered an hallucinogenic moss which quickly became the focus of a cult. Though the moss is long gone, the who...

  • Told by the Dead

    2003 Signed, Numbered, First PS Publishing Slipcased Hardcover Edition Signed: by author and intro. Numbered: # 72/200 Stated: First Edition Slipcase: In like new condition Like New/Like New Dust jacket is in like new condition. No flaws noted. Book ...

  • The Overnight


    The bookstore's shelves are put in order every night, but every morning, books are found lying all over the floor, many damp and damaged beyond repair. The store's computers keep acting up, and even when the machines are off, they seem to glow wi...



  • Crimes of Passion

    Hot Blood

    Some crimes go beyond the laws of nature... There is a line most people do not dare to cross; an unseen border between reason and passion, logic and lust. But for some, this boundary is merely a doorway into a realm of unbridled passions and uncontr...

  • Secret Story

    You're an underpaid civil servant who dreams of chucking it all to become a famous author. You live with your overbearing mother who always seems to interrupt when you're writing a key scene. Who always wants to know why you haven't brought home a ni...

  • The Grin of the Dark

    A former professor offers film critic Simon the chance of a lifetime―to write a book on one of the greatest long-lost comedians of the silent-film era, Tubby Thackeray. Simon is determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man's disappe...

  • Inconsequential Tales

  • Creatures of the Pool

    Gavin Meadows always worried about his father. The old man could appear a bit paranoid at times, and his research projects sometimes seemed a little crazy. But now his father's missing, and Gavin is more than worried. And the more he looks into his f...

  • Vile Things

    Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror is the ultimate collection of extreme horror from award winning masters and up-and-coming authors of macabre fiction.EDITORIAL REVIEWS"This book is a definite for any extreme horror fan. Full of terror, sex, ...

  • The Trick

    Many of the demonic and thriller stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the ori...

  • Solomon Kane

    Solomon Kane is a sixteenth century anti-hero created by renowned sword and sorcery author Robert E Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian). When Solomon Kane meets the Devil's Reaper, he postpones his fate by renouncing violence - a vow th...

  • The Seven Days of Cain

  • Thieving Fear

    Something called Charlotte's name that night. Her sister and her cousins, comfortable in their sleeping bags, didn't hear it, but it lured Charlotte to the edge of the cliff, to a secret trapdoor buried beneath dirt and grass. Beyond the trapdoor l...



  • Mammoth Books presents A Ghostly Gathering: Four Stories by Thana Niveau, Mark Morris, Angela Slatter and Ramsey Campbell

    The Pier - Thana Niveau"The pier exists," explains Thana Niveau, "and yes, it is decorated with strange plaques and cryptic memorials, although none are quite as morbid as I've invented."It's mostly Clevedon Pier, which is where the story was born. I...

  • Mammoth Books presents The Unexpected: Six short stories by Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Simon Strantzas, Nicholas R

    What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night - Michael Marshall SmithFor Michael Marshall Smith, this was one of those stories that dropped straight into his head, but the problem was that he didn't want it: "It wasn't an idea I liked. It was clearly s...

  • Holes for Faces

    "Consider Holes for Faces another textbook by one of our best practitioners, an essential addition to the bookshelves of horror readers and writers alike." - FEAR NET "Holes For Faces is a must-read for Ramsey Campbell fans, collecting his best stor...

  • Dead But Dreaming

    Dead But Dreaming is a fiction anthology of fifteen original tales of Lovecraftian horror, edited by Miskatonic River Press's Kevin Ross, with Keith Herber. Originally released in 2002 by DarkTales Publications, only seventy-five copies were printed ...

  • Best New Horror 2

    The sensational showcase of the year's very best horror stories from the greatest contemporary masters of fear. ...

  • Best New Horror 3

    Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, and the British Fantasy award of the same category, this anthology includes the best horror stories from 1991. Stories by Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Brian Lumley, Karl Edward Wagner, Garry ...

  • Ghosts Know

    Ramsey Campbell's Ghosts Know is a fascinating exploration of the twists and turns of reality-media personalities, the line between the dead and the living…and how the truth can be twisted to serve all manner of reality. Graham Wilde is a conten...

  • Best New Horror 4

    Best New Horror has established itself as the world's most admired annual collection, showcasing the very best in contemporary horror fiction. For this latest bloodcurdling feast of terror, the multi-award winning editors have chosen such modern mast...

  • The Best New Horror 5

    Best New Horror has established itself as the world's premier horror annual, showcasing the talents of the very best writers working in the horror and dark fantasy field today. In this latest volume, the multi-award winning editors have chosen razor-...

  • Cut Corners Volume 1

    Peel your eyes open, get comfortable, and let three of the horror genre’s hardest hitters take you for a ride. Prepare yourselves, my friends, for you are placing your sanity in the hands of these masters of the macabre. Three brand new stories gua...

  • Suspended in Dusk

    "Disquieting and at times terrifying, SUSPENDED IN DUSK shows that horror can, and should, have substance." ~ Kaaron Warren, Shirley Jackson Award winner, and author of Slights, Mystification, Walking the Tree.

    "SUSPENDED IN DUSK offers a delicio...

  • Horror 101: The Way Forward

    "Horror 101: The Way Forward - is sharp, savvy and packed with crucial information for anyone who wants to take a real bite out of the horror genre. Two taloned thumbs up!" - Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of CODE ZERO and V-WARS...

  • Horror 201: The Silver Scream

    The definitive guide to filmmaking and filmmakers by the best in the field. Horror 201: The Silver Scream, the follow-up to the Bram Stoker Award nominated Horror 101: The Way Forward, delves into the minds of filmmakers to see what it takes to p...

  • Again

    'Again' is a reprint of a Ramsey Campbell tale, specially adapted for Refuge. Tired of Refuge, Bryant May looks further afield for excitement. He finds it, and it challenges how he should view people, especially the elderly…...

  • Heaven to Some...

    The Refuge Collection is a collection of dark, supernatural and terrifying tales set in and around the mythical town of Refuge, where every house is different, and so are the people who live there. People seek Refuge for all sorts of reasons, some...

  • The Kind Folk

    In Ramsey Campbell's The Kind Folk, fairies are real . . . and they're coming for you. Luke Arnold is a successful stage comedian who, with his partner Sophie Drew, is about to have their first child. Their life seems ideal and Luke feels that tru...

  • The Booking

    From world renowned horror author Ramsey Campbell (Alone with the Horrors, Ancient Images) comes a frightening new psychological horror novella, third book in the ongoing Black Labyrinth imprint illustrated by Santiago Caruso. Kiefer is desperate for...

  • Ten Tall Tales: And Twisted Limericks

    Ten tall tales of horror, dark fantasy and dark science fiction, commissioned from some of the most twisted imaginations writing today, as part of NewCon Press' 10th anniversary celebrations. Each story is inter-leafed with a wicked limerick from ...

  • Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1

    Celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's first major tale of his Cthulhu Mythos began an entire sub-genre of the macabre and in that story, he made Australia a crucial location in his supernatural universe. Now, a group of Australia's most accompli...

  • Chthonic

    Within the pages of this anthology of weird fiction, you'll find seventeen stories from a diverse group of international authors. Stories that plumb the depths of earth at least as deeply as they explore the human capacity for suffering and enligh...

  • Primogen: Origin of Monsters

    Eighteen of your favorite authors take you on a trip to discover the reinvented "Origin of Monsters". Meet the primogeniture from each horrific bloodline as told from creative minds like Ramsey Campbell, Nicholas Vince, Josh Malerman, and more....

  • The Inhabitant of the Lake

  • Visions from Brichester

  • Suspended in Dusk II

    DUSK DEFENDS THE LIGHT FROM THE DARK. SOMETIMES…

    Life is nothing if not constant change. And these changes force us to make terrifying choices that will lead us into either the light or the dark. Dusk is this tipping point, where things go w...

  • The Children of Gla'aki

    There is a lake in the Severn Valley, near a town called Brichester. It is an eerie, haunted place, both by day and by night. Night especially though, is a time when no one in their right mind would go anywhere near it, or those oddly deserted houses...

  • Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach

    It’s Ray’s and Sandra’s first family holiday in Greece, on the island of Vasilema. The skies are cloudier than anywhere else in Greece, and they’re intrigued by local eccentricities―the lack of mirrors, the outsize beach umbrellas, the sain...

  • Monsters of Any Kind

  • Think Yourself Lucky

    "Campbell on vintage form." - Crime TimeDavid Botham just wants a quiet ordinary life -- his job at the travel agency, his relationship with his girlfriend Stephanie. The online blog that uses a title he once thought up has nothing to do with him. He...

  • Just Behind You

  • The Wise Friend

    “An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that” - Guillermo del ToroFeatured in Booklist's Top SF/Fantasy & Horror of 2020.Patrick Torrington’s aunt Thelma was a successful artist whose late work turned towards the occ...

  • The Searching Dead

    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 rel...

  • The BLACK STONE. Stories for Lovecraftian Summonings

    Stories by:Ramsey Campbell, Brian M Sammons, Glynn Owen Barrass, Lucy A. Snyder, E.A. Black, Chris Kelso, Andrew Coulthard, Stephen Mark Rainey, Kevin Lewis, Richard Alan Scott, Russell Smeaton, J. Edwin Buja, Made in DNA, David Agranoff, Pete Ra...

  • Somebody's Voice

    “An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that” - Guillermo del ToroAlex Grand is a successful crime novelist until his latest book is condemned for appropriating the experience of victims of abuse. In a bid to rescue his re...

  • Born to the Dark

    "Campbell’s writing is intimate, darkly funny, and deeply human, balancing edge-of-the-seat suspense with heartfelt character development. This delightfully unsettling sequel does not disappoint." -- Publishers WeeklyBook 2 in the Three Births of...

  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #6

    Hailed by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as "Britain's most respected living horror writer," Ramsey Campbell has authored an astounding body of work for over half a century that embodies the weird, the supernatural, and the subtle, much o...

  • Far Away & Never

    Ramsey Campbell, best known for his many works of horror and dark suspense, now invites the reader to yet another milieu, Far Away & Never. Through these eight tales of swords and sorcery—four of which feature the inexhaustible swordsman Ryre&...

  • Penumbra No. 2

    The second issue of Penumbra is highlighted by Lost for Words, a new story by Ramsey Campbell, the leading writer of weird and supernatural literature of our time. In addition, veteran writers Darrell Schweitzer and Mark Samuels contribute original t...

  • From The Depths

    Fourteen horror authors were asked to dig deep within themselves and bring forth the story that best represents their dark art. Dive in and find what lurks in the murky depths of a writer's mind..With foreword by the Master of Horror, Ramsey Campbell...

  • The Way of the Worm

    The third and final novel in Ramsey Campbell's triumphant Lovecraftian trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth, where time travel, monstrous evil and the alien apocalypse combine to create a stunning conclusion for streaming TV lovers and suspense reade...

  • 13 Haunted Houses

    Haunted Houses have intrigued and terrified the human mind for millennia. From folk tales about remote cabins, to Victorian ghost stories, to Hollywood blockbusters, the iconic crumbling walls and creaking doors have maintained themselves as a staple...

  • Fellstones

    "Campbell has mastered the art of generating a sense of sustained unease." The Washington Post. A new masterpiece from the master of suspense.Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It’s where Paul Dunstan was adopted by ...

  • The Lonely Lands

    “He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget you’re just reading a story” " Publishers WeeklyThe latest bestseller from the ultimate craftsman of the dark fantastic, Ramsey Campbell. Joe Hunter has begun to adjust to th...

  • The Incubations

    “Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James” " The TimesA collectable hardcover edition for Ramsey Campbell's 60 years in publication.When a weight landed on his legs he raised his head from the violently crumpled pi...

  • Height of the Scream

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  • The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants

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  • New Terrors

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  • New Terrors II

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    Pocket, 1984. This anthology reprints for the US market 15 of the 37 stories that originally appeared in the UK two-volume anthology series in 1980. Seven of the stories in the original series were not reprinted in the US editions. STORIES: Sun City ...

Award-Winning Books by Ramsey Campbell

Alone with the Horrors
1994 Bram Stoker Award -- Collection
1994 World Fantasy Award -- Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Ramsey Campbell has published 96 books.

Ramsey Campbell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Incubations, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Ramsey Campbell, Superhorror, was published in February 1977.

No. Ramsey Campbell does not write books in series.
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