Ramsey Campbell will show you terror in a plastic bag. Or a pedestrian underpass. Or a deserted council estate. Since the late ’70s, he has written dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories, from erotic horror to the traditional ghost story. But in the ’80s, he was the chief practitioner of Fritz Leiber’s style of urban horror, luring readers into empty city streets and squalid basements and confronting them with the monsters that were born there. Campbell’s stories feel like week-old newspapers, swollen with water, black with mold, forgotten on the steps of the abandoned tenement. His
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