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Biographical note
Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as âBritainâs most respected living horror writerâ. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know, The Kind Folk, Think Yourself Lucky and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach. Needing Ghosts, The Last Revelation of Glaâaki, The Pretence and The Booking are novellas. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You and Holes for Faces, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal are what they sound like.
His novels The Nameless, Pact of the Fathers and The Influence have been filmed in Spain. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.
<p>"After all these decades, Britainâs doyen of horror is still writing up a storm."</p>
- Horror Tree,
<p>Published sixty years after Ramsey Campbellâs first story â <em>The Inhabitant of the Lake</em> - appeared, <em>The Incubations</em> is an enthralling story encompassing Nazi obsession with the supernatural, mixed with Lovecraftian threads and woven together in the authorâs inimitable style. The sense of creeping dread that pervades Campbellâs work is well to the fore and keeps the reader hooked and guessing to the end.</p>
- Catherine Cavendish, author of Supernatural, Ghostly, Haunted House and Gothic Fiction,
<p>What I love about Ramsey Campbell is his fiction provides that old-fashioned understated, sinister creepiness, without losing modern sensibilities. No one does it as well as Ramsey Campbell, and here's the proof.</p>
- Joe R. Lansdale, author of over forty novels and numerous short stories,
<p><em>The Incubations</em> begins with mundane failures and terrors and spools out into an extraordinary, unsettling tale of paranoia, fear, and imagination. Ramsey Campbell's trademark impeccable prose pulls the reader into a downward spiral that will leave you questioning your own memory and perception. I savored every disorienting page.</p>
- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Horror Movie,
<p>It's a demanding role, being Britain's premier writer of horror fiction, but it's one that Ramsey Campbell has comfortably filled for decades now â and, in fact, he is among the world's finest practitioners of the art. <em>The Incubations</em> coruscates with all of his celebrated skills: the command of subtle and allusive narrative, the elegant use of language and â most of all â the ability to pleasurably disturb the reader at the deepest level. It's proof that Campbell remains at the top of his game.</p>
- Barry Forshaw, author of British Gothic Cinema,
<p>An unputdownable feast of folk horror and fiendish creatures.</p>
- John Llewellyn Probert, Winner of the British Fantasy Award,
<p>A masterclass in paranoid prose, <em>The Incubations</em> presents us with Ramsey Campbell at the height of his powers. I can think of no other living writer so adept at creating nightmares from vaguely apprehended shadows, cross-purpose attempts at conversation, and the awkward perceptions of society's perennial outsiders.</p>
- Steve Rasnic Tem, Winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy and Bram Stoker Awards,
<p>Encounter the Alps as youâve never imagined them⌠Ramsey Campbell and folk horror make for a formidable combination! Embrace your deepest fears and come on inâŚ</p>
- Alison Littlewood, author of horror novels and short stories,
<p>[A] fearsomely compelling read from beginning to end. [...] Ramsey Campbell, who is celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of his first book, shows with <em>The Incubations</em> that he remains the premier writer of weird fiction in our time, and perhaps of all time.</p>
- S.T. Joshi, literary critic,
<p>In his new novel <em>The Incubations</em>, Ramsey Campbell yet again successfully delivers what most horror writers spend a lifetime failing to achieve: he instills in his readers the sense that his fiction is coiling its loathsome tendrils around their minds and drawing them inexorably into a netherworld of inescapable, dread-inducing nightmare.</p>
- Mark Morris, author of That Which Stands Outside,
<p>An exceptional piece of work. The Master that is Ramsey Campbell just keeps on getting better and better - how is that even possible?! Highly recommended.</p>
- Dean M. Drinkel, award winning screenwriter & director,
<p><em>The Incubations</em> is top-flight Campbell, displaying the depth of his vision and the seemingly limitless nature of his reach. The author is fond of saying that after all these years he still hasnât found the limits of the horror genre. May his search long continue.</p>
- Gary McMahon, British Fantasy Award nominated author,
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as âBritainâs most respected living horror writerâ. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know, The Kind Folk, Think Yourself Lucky and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach. Needing Ghosts, The Last Revelation of Glaâaki, The Pretence and The Booking are novellas. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You and Holes for Faces, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal are what they sound like.
His novels The Nameless, Pact of the Fathers and The Influence have been filmed in Spain. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.