Ramsey Campbell

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born

January 04, 1946 in Liverpool, England, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://www.ramseycampbell.com/

genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction

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John Ramsey Campbell is a British writer considered by a number of critics to be one of the great masters of horror fiction. T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today," while S. T. Joshi has said that "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."

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Books by Ramsey Campbell

Average rating: 3.89 · 15,597 ratings · 1,022 reviews · 302 distinct works

	Hungry Moon 3.52 avg rating — 229 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	Cold Print 3.73 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Alone With the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction, 1961-1991 4.04 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Ancient Images 3.49 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell, Poppy Z. Brite (Introduction), J.K. Potter (Photographs) 3.75 avg rating — 166 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Midnight Sun 3.66 avg rating — 150 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Doll Who Ate His Mother 3.43 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1976 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Darkest Part of the Woods 3.17 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Overnight 2.82 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Nazareth Hill: Gates of Hades 3.42 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ramsey Campbell

“Tradition is a pretty poor excuse for perpetrating stereotypes.”
― Ramsey Campbell

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“Leaves that rustled, twigs that scraped and rattled. But the thin shapes weren't falling, they were scurrying head first down the tree-trunks at a speed that seemed to leave time behind. Some of them had no shape they could have lived with, and some might never have had any skin. She saw their shriveled eyes glimmer eagerly and their toothless mouths gape with an identical infantile hunger. Their combined weight bowed the lowest branches while they extended arms like withered sticks to snatch the child. ("With The Angels")”
― Ramsey Campbell, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22

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“One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.”
― Ramsey Campbell

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