Ramsey Campbell
Author of The Hungry Moon
About the Author
John Ramsey Campbell was born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool, England. He is a horror fiction author and editor. At the age of 11 he wrote a collection called Ghostly Tales which was published as a special issue of Crypt of Cthulhu magazine titled- Ghostly Tales- Crypt of Cthulhu 6. He continued to show more write and later published his collection called The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants. At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester. The invented locale of Brichester was deeply influenced by Campbell's native Liverpool, and much of his later work is set in the real locales of Liverpool. In particular, his 2005 novel Secret Stories both exemplifies and satirizes Liverpoolian speech, characters and humor. John Campbell's titles include The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The One Safe Place , The Seven Days of Cain and The Last Revelation of Gla'aki. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Most, but not all, of the Carl Dreadstone books are by Campbell. The authors of the others are unknown.
Series
Works by Ramsey Campbell
The Folio Book of Horror Stories 20 copies
The Decorations 8 copies
The Brood 8 copies
The Companion 5 copies
The Chimney 5 copies
The Show Goes On 4 copies
The Depths 4 copies
Mackintosh Willy 4 copies
Respects 4 copies
The Changer Of Names 4 copies
Heading Home 4 copies
Playing the Game [short fiction] 4 copies
Napier Court 4 copies
Down There 3 copies
Out Of Copyright 3 copies
Boiled Alive 3 copies
Call First 3 copies
Meeting The Author 3 copies
Saga of the Swamp Thing 3 copies
No Strings 3 copies
THE BLACK STONE. Stories for Lovecraftian Summonings: Curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Dark Fiction Series Book 1) (2021) 3 copies
With The Angels 3 copies
The Scar 3 copies
Loveman's Comeback 3 copies
The Entertainment 3 copies
Drawing In 3 copies
Night Beat 3 copies
Above The World 3 copies
It Helps If You Sing [short fiction] 3 copies
The Sunshine Club 3 copies
The Hands 3 copies
Calling Card [short story] 3 copies
The Other Side [short fiction] 3 copies
Next Time You'll Know Me 3 copies
The Satyr's Head: Tales of Terror 2 copies
The Little Voice [short fiction] 2 copies
In the Bag 2 copies
The Mouths Of Light 2 copies
A Street Was Chosen 2 copies
The Change 2 copies
Digging Deep [short fiction] 2 copies
Bait 2 copies
The Guide [short story] 2 copies
End Of The Line 2 copies
To Wake the Dead [short fiction] 2 copies
All for Sale [short fiction] 2 copies
The Alternative [short fiction] 2 copies
The Limits Of Fantasy 2 copies
Merry May 2 copies
The Christmas Present 2 copies
The Old Horns 2 copies
Where The Heart Is 2 copies
The Body In The Window 2 copies
Apples 2 copies
Seeing The World 2 copies
Just Waiting 2 copies
Hearing Is Believing 2 copies
The End of a Summer’s Day 2 copies
The Man In The Underpass 2 copies
The Ferries 2 copies
Baby 2 copies
Stages 2 copies
The Old School 2 copies
The Sustenance of Hoak 2 copies
Going Under 2 copies
Again 2 copies
Cold Print [Short Story] 2 copies
The Invocation 2 copies
The Voice On The Beach 2 copies
The Pattern 2 copies
Horror Stories 1 copy
Dead Letters [short fiction] 1 copy
Descenso 1995 1 copy
Nightmare Abbey 5 1 copy
The Horror Under Warrendown 1 copy
Direct line [short fiction] 1 copy
Peep 1 copy
By Bizarre Hands 1 copy
Another World 1 copy
The Other Woman 1 copy
Dolls 1 copy
The Room In The Castle 1 copy
Breaking Up 1 copy
Ra*e 1 copy
The Word 1 copy
The Sneering 1 copy
Watch The Birdie 1 copy
The Trick 1 copy
Through The Walls 1 copy
No End of Fun 1 copy
No Story In It 1 copy
Unblinking 1 copy
Old Clothes 1 copy
The Seductress 1 copy
The Fit 1 copy
Midnight Hobo 1 copy
The Guy 1 copy
The Interloper 1 copy
Dragged Down 1 copy
Never To Be Heard 1 copy
Agatha's Ghost 1 copy
Welcomeland 1 copy
Fear the Dead 1 copy
The Unbeheld 1 copy
A New Life 1 copy
Between the Floors 1 copy
Twice by Fire 1 copy
Lilith's 1 copy
Kill Me Hideously 1 copy
At Lorn Hall 1 copy
Hain's Island 1 copy
Sogni neri 1 copy
Conversion 1 copy
The Puppets 1 copy
The Proxy 1 copy
Nameless-Can: Froggy-Can 1 copy
See How They Run 1 copy
The Unheld [short fiction] 1 copy
Chucky Comes To Liverpool 1 copy
The Winner 1 copy
Return Journey 1 copy
The Dead Must Die 1 copy
Stiefkind van de nacht 1 copy
Dictionnaire des auteurs 1 copy
Snoepjes 1 copy
Rising Generation 1 copy
Tatters 1 copy
The Faces At Pine Dunes 1 copy
Jack In The Box 1 copy
Associated Works
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (2018) — Contributor — 87 copies
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories: Terrifying Tales Set on the Scariest Night of the Year! (2018) — Contributor — 63 copies
Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror (2015) — Foreword — 46 copies
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories: Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night! (2019) — Contributor — 45 copies
Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House (2000) — Contributor — 44 copies
Christmas Ghosts: Seventeen Great Ghost Stories in the Christmas Tradition (1987) — Contributor — 40 copies
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Children of Gla'aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Great Old One (2016) — Contributor — 37 copies
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night: 10 Scary Stories to Give You Nightmares! (2019) — Contributor — 32 copies
Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (2016) 26 copies
Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021) — Contributor — 16 copies
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of the UK's Healthcare Workers (2020) — Contributor — 11 copies
Flotsam Fantasique The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies
Four for Fear: A Quartet of Spooky Stories Commissioned for the Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2012 (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
Noctum Aeternus 1 — Contributor — 3 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Campbell, John Ramsey
- Other names
- Dreadstone, Carl (shared pseudonym)
Dredston, Karl (shared pseudonym)
Ramsay, Jay
Campbell, J. Ramsey
Comfort, Montgomery
Leyton, E. K. (shared pseudonym) (show all 7)
Undercliffe, Errol (fictional author he wrote a story as) - Birthdate
- 1946-01-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Wallasey, England, UK
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK (birth) - Education
- St Edward's College, Liverpool, England, UK
- Occupations
- writer
tax officer
librarian
lecturer
film critic - Relationships
- Chandler, A. Bertram (father in law)
Chandler, Jenny (wife) - Organizations
- British Fantasy Society (Lifetime President)
British Film Institute
Horror Writers Association
Society of Fantastic Films (Lifetime President) - Awards and honors
- Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Award for Literature (1994)
Premio alla Carriera ( [1995])
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (1999)
Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association (1999)
The Howie Award of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival for lifetime achievement (2006)
Bram Stoker Award (1998|Lifetime Achievement, 1998) (show all 7)
International Horror Guild Living Legend (2006) - Agent
- [UK, foreign language] John Jarrold
[US, film/tv] Kay McCauley (Aurous Inc.) - Disambiguation notice
- Most, but not all, of the Carl Dreadstone books are by Campbell. The authors of the others are unknown.
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Discussions
For all you fine press horror geeks... in Fine Press Forum (November 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash" by Ramsey Campbell in The Weird Tradition (January 2022)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell in The Weird Tradition (October 2013)
Ramsey Campbell - What am I missing? in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (July 2009)
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