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Campbell, Ramsey was born in 1946.
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Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family and for his identity as a published writer, whose talent is almost too big to bear. "Needing Ghosts" is one day in Simon's world. One day in which he doesn't need to imagine the worst - it's all around him.
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(Geoff is happily married with a young son who is the deli...)
Geoff is happily married with a young son who is the delight of his life. A famous, successful investigative journalist, he is in the middle of a publicity tour when a voice on the phone plunges him into the darkest part of his past, and into a deadly present. The voice is that of Geoff's long-missing brother, Ben. When they were children, Ben was blamed for every trouble, large or small. And Ben was not always innocent -- he performed acts of vandalism; he stole; sometimes he seemed, even as a child, to be a borderline sociopath. He was also abused, emotionally and physically, by their father. Without that abuse, what might Ben have become? With it, what has Ben become? When they were small, Ben devised tortured puzzles for his brother to solve. Now Ben offers Geoff a new set of clues with a terrible secret at their core. Someone is killing happily married couples. Ben challenges Geoff to solve the murders...and warns him that his own family may be in danger if he does not. If Geoff fails, his son may pay the price -- but if he succeeds, will he find that his brother has become a killer?
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( A town trapped in the grip of spreading evil. Isola...)
A town trapped in the grip of spreading evil. Isolated 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 let that continue, and his intolerant brand of fundamentalism has struck a chord with the residents. But Mann goes too far when he descends into the pit where the ancient being who’s been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell…. What emerges is no longer Mann, but a demon in Mann’s shape, and only the town’s outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong. Slowly, as the evil spreads, Moonwell becomes cut off from the rest of the world. Telephone lines become disconnected. Roads no longer lead out of town. And the monster’s power only grows…and grows.
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Revised from the paperback first edition published in Britain. This first hard cover edition restores previously edited material, including a deleted chapter. Story of a homophobic, psychotic killer in dreary Liverpool
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A collection of fantasy and horror short stories by British author J. Ramsey Campbell, who dropped the initial from his name in subsequent publications. It was released in 1964 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,009 copies and was the author's first book. The stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos. Campbell had originally written his introduction to be included in the book The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces under the title "Cthulhu in Britain". However, Arkham's editor, August Derleth, decided to use it here. The contents were reprinted with some of Campbell's later Lovecraftian work in his 1985 collection Cold Print.
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( Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most honored aut...)
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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( Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten ...)
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 and atmosphere is unsurpassed." The Cleveland Plain Dealer says his horror fiction is "of consistently high quality," and The Washington Post praises Campbell for continuing "to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries." The original publication of Scared Stiff almost created the sub-genre of erotic horror. Never had sex and death been so mesmerizingly entwined. Clive Barker, in his Introduction, says, "One of the delightfully unsettling things about these tales is the way Ramsey's brooding, utterly unique vision renders an act so familiar to us all so fretful, so strange, so chilling. Sex . . . is the perfect stuff for the horror writer, and there can be few artists working in the genre as capable of analyzing and dramatizing this as Campbell." For this edition, Campbell has added three new stories which have never before appeared in book form.
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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, top-flight surgeons, high-ranking police officials, and many more--are bound by an unholy blood pact that calls for the sacrifice of their first born children. Now, the more she learns, the more Daniella makes herself a target. But she must not be silenced, for she is not the only firstborn in danger, only the oldest.
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Bookseller's comment: "Includes the short story 'The Horror at Chilton Castle,' which is consider the best among many great Joseph Payne Brennan short stories. Chilling." Paperback original. Cover art by Jill Bauman. Anthology.
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(Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family ...)
Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family and for his identity as a published writer, whose talent is almost too big to bear. "Needing Ghosts" is one day in Simon's world. One day in which he doesn't need to image the worst - it's all around him.
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( Ramsey Campbell has been acclaimed as a “master of dark...)
Ramsey Campbell has been acclaimed as a “master of dark fantasy” by Clive Barker, the “master of a skewed and exquisitely terrifying style” by Library Journal, “one of the world’s foremost horror writers” by the San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, and a “master of mood” by Publishers Weekly. The Darkest Part of the Woods is contemporary dark fantasy, bordering on horror. It is evocative, emotional, and disturbing. The Darkest Part of the Woods introduces the Price family, whose fates are entangled with the ancient forest of Goodmanswood. Dr. Lennox Price discovered a hallucinogenic moss that became the focus of a cult. After Lennox’s death, his widow seems to see and hear him in the trees—or is it a dark version of the Green Man that caresses her with leafy hands? Lennox’s grandson heeds a call to lie in his lover’s arms in the very heart of the forest—and cannot help but wonder what the fruit of that love will be. And Heather, Lennox’s daughter, who turned her back on her father’s mysteries and sought sanctuary in the world of facts and history? Goodmanswood summons her as well....
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( Once upon a time there was a man who loved children. He...)
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 upon a time, Leslie had a happy marriage, a happy son, and a happy life. Now divorced, she is trapped in ongoing battles with her ex-husband, Roger, especially over their newly-adolescent son, Ian. When Ian and his young stepsister disappear, Roger insists the boy kidnapped the girl, while Leslie thinks Ian might have run away. She prays that her son is near and will come home soon. Ian is near-right next door, just on the other side of a shared wall. Ian can hear his parents fighting and his mother's desperate weeping, but he can't call for help. Hector Woollie has him and his stepsister, and if either child makes a peep, the madman will slit both their throats.
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( A lost horror film holds the key to terrifying secrets....)
A lost horror film holds the key to terrifying secrets. The legends have persisted for decades of a lost horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi that was never released. Rumor has it that, for reasons long forgotten, powerful forces suppressed the film and burned all known prints. Nobody now living has seen the finished film. But that might no longer be true… Film researcher Sandy Allan is invited to a screening of a newly-discovered sole-surviving print, but then the film disappears and the real horror begins. Sandy’s search for the film leads her to Redfield, a rural community known its rich soil, fertilized by blood from an ancient massacre. But Redfield guards its secrets closely, with good reason. During every step of her search, Sandy is watched, shadowed by strange figures. Is it paranoia, or is someone—or something—determined to keep the lost film and the secrets it reveals buried forever?
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( A brilliant collection of stories by one of the masters...)
A brilliant collection of stories by one of the masters of horror. Not all companions are friendly. There are many that you most definitely do not want to see. When Elaine was working late at the office, she thought she was all alone. But something sinister was in the elevator shaft…working its way to her floor. Miles, too, thought he was alone in his new house, the house of a murderer, but he, too, had an unwanted companion. And Knox will never forget what was waiting for him in the dense fog. Come and meet all of these companions and more in this chilling collection of horror tales by award-winning master of terror Ramsey Campbell. That clawing sound you hear, the haunting singing, the moving shadow—they all mean that something is waiting to make your acquaintance.
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Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family and for his identity as a published writer, whose talent is almost too big to bear. "Needing Ghosts" is one day in Simon's world. One day in which he doesn't need to image the worst - it's all around him.
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British horror master Ramsey Campbell offers 10 sly and disturbing stories of an erotic hue in Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death, an expanded version of the 1988 collection of the same name subtitled Seven Tales of Seduction and Terror. Clive Barker provides an introduction, the author an afterword in which he comments with typical wit on his repressed Catholic upbringing.
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First Trade edition, A Fine copy. 12 stories, 6 by Ramsey Campbell, 6 by Charles L. Grant. Illustrated by J.K.Potter. DJ has tiny rub marks at the corners and base of spine else fine.
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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 nerves and chill the spine; he assails ones very grip on reality. Ghosts and Grisly Things is a chilling collection of the best of Campbells recent short fiction, most of it never before available in any form.
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and ""Medusa,"" along with eight shorter works of horror fiction about such places as forbidden castle ruins where children's games become chilling reality. By the author of The Count of Eleven.
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When an ignored chain letter leads to near disaster, family man and video store owner Jack Orchard allows his obsession with numerology to lead him on a murderous rampage. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.
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A collection of terrifying short fiction features stories about forests full of wooden demons and houses haunted by the future. By the author of The Count of Eleven. Reprint.
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pectral terrors abound, and monsters who might live next door or in our own heads. We learn why we should never play cards with strangers, and the perils of attending press shows of films. We glimpse a book that may render all others redundant, and encounter another that is too full of ghosts. A roadside mirror contains more than a reflection, and a bedroom mirror shows what may be in store for us all. Telephone advertising gives rise to a nightmare, and so does a Mediterranean holiday. A nostalgic train journey ends in dread, but leaving a train leads there too. Two street musicians may make the reader anxious to placate such entertainers with at least a coin. The author's wife exerts a calming influence in a collaboration, but his delirium is irrepressible, and readers with recherché preferences will be rewarded by a troupe of rampant midgets. All this, of course, is in the best possible taste. The contents range from immediately after the completion of DEMONS BY DAYLIGHT thirty-five years ago to the beginning of this century. Here is a book not just for aficionados of horror but for anyone who relishes wit, language and the imagination Stephen King describes as "so uniquely Campbell that it might as well be trademarked."
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Campbell, Ramsey was born in 1946.
Film critic, British Broadcasting Corporation, Liverpool tax officer, Liverpool, 1962-1966; library assistant, Liverpool Public Libraries, 1966-1973.
( Ramsey Campbell has been acclaimed as a “master of dark...)
(British horror master Ramsey Campbell offers 10 sly and d...)
(When an ignored chain letter leads to near disaster, fami...)
(Bookseller's comment: "Includes the short story 'The Horr...)
( Daniella Logan, daughter of a film impresario, is stunn...)
(and ""Medusa,"" along with eight shorter works of horror ...)
( A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and an e...)
( Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten ...)
(A collection of terrifying short fiction features stories...)
(Edition of 4,348 copies, it was the author's third collec...)
(pectral terrors abound, and monsters who might live next ...)
( Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most honored aut...)
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(A collection of fantasy and horror short stories by Briti...)
( A brilliant collection of stories by one of the masters...)
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(Revised from the paperback first edition published in Bri...)
( A lost horror film holds the key to terrifying secrets....)
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(First Trade edition, A Fine copy. 12 stories, 6 by Ramsey...)
(Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family ...)
(Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family ...)
(Simon Mottershead is lost. He's searching for his family ...)
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Member British Fantasy Society (president since 1976).