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John Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946 in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction author, editor and critic.
Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T. Joshi stated, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."
Campbell's childhood and adolescence were marked by the rift between his parents and his mother's developing schizophrenia, an experience he has discussed in detail in the introduction and afterword to the restored text of The Face That Must Die. Although both parents lived in the same house, Campbell states, "I didn't see my father face to face for nearly twenty years, and that was when he was dying." Other autobiographical pieces regarding Campbell's life are available in Section V, "On Ramsey Campbell" in his essay collection Ramsey Campbell, Probably: 30 Years of Essays and Articles (ed. S.T. Joshi) Hornsea, UK: PS Publishing, 2002.
Campbell had already been attracted to the weird field before he read H.P. Lovecraft. His earliest stories, written in 1957-58, when Campbell was but eleven years of age, comprised a collection called Ghostly Tales. (This collection of juvenilia was eventually published as a special issue of Crypt of Cthulhu magazine titled- Ghostly Tales- Crypt of Cthulhu 6, No 8, whole number 50, Michaelmas 1987, edited by Robert M. Price). Another issue of this magazine - Crypt of Cthulhu No 43 (Hallowmas 1983), titled The Tomb-Herd and Others collects various early stories including some early drafts of tales later published revised in Campbell's first book, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (Arkham House, 1964).
However, his concept of what was possible in the weird genre changed radically when he discovered Lovecraft's work. Campbell sold various of his early stories to editors including August Derleth and Robert A.W. Lowndes. His first collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, is a volume of Cthulhu Mythos stories published by Arkham House in 1964. 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, near the River Severn, creating his own Severn Valley milieu for Lovecraftian horrors. 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 and Merseyside. In particular, his 2005 novel Secret Stories (published in the U.S. in an abridged edition as Secret Story (2006)) both exemplifies and satirizes Liverpudlian speech, characters, humor, and culture.
Campbell has written that "Having completed Demons by Daylight in 1968, I felt directionless, and it shows in quite a few of the subsequent tales." He wrote only four tales in 1970, and five stories in 1971. But by 1973, Campbell set out to write fulltime. He has written that "retrospect demonstrates how untimely my decision was. Kirby McCauley, now my agent, had to tell me that the market for short horror stories was very limited...My solution was to lurch into science fiction as best I could. Little of it sold..." Many of the science fiction tales are collected in Inconsequential Tales (2008); he also wrote the novella Medusa (1973) and the short story "Slow" (collected in Told by the Dead), but has stated that his science fiction "tried to deal with Themes, too consciously, I feel".
Outside the world of horror, he wrote a series of fantasy stories starring Ryre the Swordsman, an original creation. Many of these stories were published in the collection Far Away & Never. In 1976 he "completed" three of Robert E. Howard's unfinished Solomon Kane stories, "Hawk of Basti", "The Castle of the Devil" and "The Children of Asshur". The same year, Arkham House published his second hardcover collection of horror stories, The Height of the Scream.
Campbell has been a lifelong enthusiast of film; early stories such as "The Reshaping of Rossiter" (1964; an early version of "The Scar" ) show the influence of directors such as Alain Resnais, and as early as 1969 Campbell had become the film reviewer for BBC Radio Merseyside. His love of old movies features prominently in two of Campbell's later novels, Ancient Images and The Grin of the Dark.
Campbell wrote three novelisations of Universal horror films in 1976. They were published under the house name Carl Dreadstone. It should be noted that three further novelisations which appeared under this house name were not by Campbell but written by other authors.
1976 also saw the publication of Campbell's first novel, The Doll Who Ate His Mother. It immediately drew acclaim from figures such as Fritz Leiber and T.E.D. Klein.
1979 saw the publication of the non-supernatural thriller The Face That Must Die, considered by many critics to be one of Campbell's finest works. The novel was cut by the publisher on its first release in 1979 and not issued complete until 1983). It is the story of a homophobic serial killer told largely from the killer's point of view.
Subsequently, Campbell has published numerous novels and collections; many of his most popular stories can be found in the 1993 collection Alone with the Horrors.
Campbell has written many novels, both supernatural and non-supernatural. A more sympathetic serial murderer appears in the later novel The Count of Eleven (1991), which displays Campbell's gift for word play, and which the author has said is disturbing "because it doesn't stop being funny when you think it should". Other non-supernatural novels, such as The One Safe Place (1995), use a highly charged thriller narrative to examine social problems such as the deprivation and abuse of children.
Campbell's supernatural horror novels include Incarnate (1983), in which the boundaries between dream and reality are gradually broken down; and Midnight Sun (1990), in which an alien entity apparently seeks entry to the world through the mind of a children's writer. In its fusion of horror with awe, Midnight Sun shows the influence of Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen as well as Lovecraft. Having spent a number of months working full-time in a Borders store, he wrote The Overnight (2004), about bookshop staff trapped in their hellish workplace during an overnight shelf-filling shift. Also notable is the novella Needing Ghosts, a nightmarish work that blends the horrific and the comic.
Campbell also contributed numerous articles on horror cinema to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural (1986) He reviewed films and DVDs weekly for BBC Radio Merseyside until 2007. He writes a monthly film column, "Ramsey´s Ramblings", for Video Watchdog magazine.
About author and audiobooks:
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Novels
Ramsey Campbell - The Doll Who Ate His Mother (read by Pauline Munro)
Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon (read by Madelyn Buzzard)
Ramsey Campbell - Ancient Images (read by Jill Tanner)
Ramsey Campbell - The House On Nazareth Hill (read by Kimberly Schraf)
Ramsey Campbell - Creatures Of The Pool (read by Andy Rowe)
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http://rapidgator.net/file/ee956a53e97d548854a3cef471e2cbe4/The_Doll_Who_Ate_His_Mother.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fd183636ada5efde6ed0048bbc67759d/The_Hungry_Moon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/28a8c27282c91abe62e7f72d0f2109de/Ancient_Images.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d98c70dbc9dc5ea30e28e478d0ce5fc2/The_House_On_Nazareth_Hill.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/99ece841fcc2947959beb9389014a288/Creatures_Of_The_Pool.rar.html |
Other
Ramsey Campbell (ed.) - The Best New Horror Vol. 1 (read by Unknown reader)
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Short Stories
Ramsey Campbell - Alone With The Horrors (read by Anne Flosnik)
So Far
The Room in the Castle
Cold Print
The Scar
The Interloper
The Guy
The End of a Summer's Day
The Man in the Underpass
The Companion
Call First
Heading Home
In the Bag
Baby
The Chimney
Stages
The Brood
Loveman's Comeback
The Gap
The Voice of the Beach
Out of Copyright
Above the World
Mackintosh Willy
The Show Goes On
The Ferries
Midnight Hobo
The Depths
Down There
The Fit
Hearing Is Believing
The Hands
Again
Just Waiting
Seeing the World
Old Clothes
Apples
The Other Side
Where the Heart Is
Boiled Alive
Another World
End of the Line
Ramsey Campbell - Short Stories (read by Various narrators)
Calling Card
The Puppets
The Voice of the Beach
The Hands
Being An Angel
It Helps If You Sing
The Guide
Going Under
No Strings
All for Sale
No End of Fun
The Unbeheld
Fear the Dead
Feeling Remains
Breaking Up
The Decorations
The Winner
Digging Deep
Peep
The Long Way
At Lorn Hall
The Page
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http://rapidgator.net/file/8a29527459374b8282288114ffd4d961/Alone_With_The_Horrors.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b103944b0002183fd35ea13a55c7abb3/Short_Stories.rar.html |
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