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Alone with the Horrors
The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991

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Paperback, 450 pages
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United States, 1 September 2005

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 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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9780765307682
ISBN
0765307685
Dimensions
21.3 x 14 x 2.8 centimeters (0.40 kg)

About the Author

Ramsey Campbell has won more awards than any other living author of horror or dark fantasy, including four World Fantasy Awards, nine British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards. Critically acclaimed both in the US and in England, Campbell is widely regarded as one of the genre's literary lights for both his short fiction and his novels. His classic novels, such as The Face that Must Die, The Doll Who Ate His Mother, and The Influence, set new standards for horror as literature. His collection, Scared Stiff, virtually established the subgenre of erotic horror.

Ramsey Campbell's works have been published in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and several other languages. He has been President of the British Fantasy Society and has edited critically acclaimed anthologies, including Fine Frights. Campbell's best known works in the US are Obsession, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, and Nazareth Hill.

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"Some of the best short fiction written in the last half century." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Alone with the Horrors

"Some of the best short fiction written in the last half century." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Alone with the Horrors

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By Simon on June 3, 2007
Ramsey Campbell is one of the few modern writers of true 'weird fiction', operating in the tradition of Machen, Lovecraft, M.R. James and others whose writing affirms the primacy of suggestion and restraint over shock-horror and gore. Campbell's greatest work is here - 'Mackintosh Willy' might be one of the greatest of modern weird tales in its sinister suggestion of a revenant tramp seeking revenge on the boy who disgraced him. 'The Chimney' is a terrifying tale that puts an unusual twist on the familiar myth of Father Christmas visiting down the chimney on Christmas Eve. These stories are greatly varied, and most are excellent achievements, showing Campbell's extraordinary ability to write in different modes. Whether you are interested in more quiet horror like Robert Aickman, or more disturbing monster tales more in the vein of Lovecraft, you will more than likely be pleased by the refreshing balance struck in this collection froma modern master of horror.
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