Our list of some of the best Ramsey Campbell books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Think Yourself Lucky (Fiction Without Frontiers) (2018)
- And Cannot Come Again: Tales of Childhood, Regret, and Innocence Lost (2019)
- Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh (2019)
- The Hole in the Moon and Other Tales by Margaret St. Clair (2019)
- Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (2017)
- Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1 (2017)
- The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (2018)
- Monsters of Any Kind (2018)
- Behind The Flying Saucers — The Truth About The Aztec UFO Crash (2012)
- Horror 101: The Way Forward (2014)
Think Yourself Lucky (Fiction Without Frontiers) (2018)
“Campbell on vintage form.” – David Botham just wants a quiet ordinary life―his job at the travel agency, his relationship with his girlfriend Stephanie. The online blog that uses a title he once thought up has nothing to do with him.
And Cannot Come Again: Tales of Childhood, Regret, and Innocence Lost (2019)
Funny, frightening and moving, the stories in Simon Bestwick’s new collection explore how our childhoods mark us, our regrets haunt us, and how our innocence is sometimes lost―and sometimes taken away. A young policewoman is drawn into a dreadful bargain. Murdered girls walk the streets of Manchester beside their still-living friends.
Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh (2019)
From the back cover: Welcome to Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh, an anthology celebrating the uncanny realm of the living inanimate. Featuring tales of dolls, mannequins, statues, and other varieties of humanoid horror, Mannequin explores the intersection between artificiality and life through a stunning variety of writers both established and new. This highly-anticipated debut anthology from Silent Motorist Media is certain to leave readers of horror and weird fiction more than satisfied.
The Hole in the Moon and Other Tales by Margaret St. Clair (2019)
American science fiction author Margaret St. Clair (1911–95) wrote more than 100 short stories as well as eight novels. Many of her stories appeared in such pulp magazines as Fantastic Adventures and Startling Stories, some under her own name and some under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazard.
Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders (2017)
Want to see something weird? Embrace the odd. Satisfy your curiosity. Surrender to wonder. From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated co-editor of the smash hit Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories comes Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders. Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between the ordinary–and the imaginations of some of today’s masters of dark and thrilling fiction.
Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1 (2017)
Celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft’s first major tale of his Cthulhu Mythos began an entire sub-genre of the macabre and in that story, he made Australia a crucial location in his supernatural universe. Now, a group of Australia’s most accomplished writers of speculative fiction return to the promise of the master.
The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (2018)
Following up on the success of A Mountain Walked, this volume presents another dozen tales of the Cthulhu Mythos that show how H. P. Lovecraft’s motifs, conceptions, and imagery have affected an entire century of weird writing.
Monsters of Any Kind (2018)
Monsters are difference, change, deviance. Life force. If they want to survive, men need monsters. Stories by Ramsey Campbell, David J. Schow, Edward Lee, Jonathan Maberry, Lucy Taylor, Owl Goingback, Damien Angelica Walters, Bruce Boston, Cody Goodfellow, Monica J. O’Rourke, Michael Bailey, Erinn L. Kemper, Mark Alan Miller, Jess Landry, Santiago Eximeno, Gregory L. Norris, Greg Sisco, Michael Gray Baughan. Edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti.
Behind The Flying Saucers — The Truth About The Aztec UFO Crash (2012)
“The CONSPIRACY JOURNAL is very proud to offer this expanded version of perhaps the most seminal book in the history of the unexplained . . . a case that now stands right beside the UFO crash at Roswell, MN for its credibility and veracity. For years the Aztec case was spurned by serious researchers who did not have access to all the information now available on the crash.
Horror 101: The Way Forward (2014)
Horror 101 is a Ever wanted to be a writer? Make money online? Make a name for yourself writing online? Perhaps you’ve already realized that dream and you’re looking to expand your repertoire. Writing comic books sounds nice, right? Or how about screenplays?
Best Ramsey Campbell Books to Read
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It's Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life
Author(s): Kevin J Anderson; Clive Barker; Ramsey Campbell; Christopher Golden; Joe R Lansdale; Jonathan Maberry; Yvonne Navarro; Chuck Palahniuk; Sarah Pinborough; F Paul Wilson; Mercedes M Yardley; Joe Mynhardt; Michael Bailey; Eugene Johnson
ID: 3736011, Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre
Author(s): Clive Barker; Ramsey Campbell; Joe R Lansdale; Joe Mynhardt; Eugene Johnson
ID: 3735863, Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing, Year: 2017, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
What Fears Become: An Anthology from The Horror Zine
Author(s): Piers Anthony, Elizabeth Massie, Ronald Malfi, Bentley Little, Ramsey Campbell, Scott Nicholson, Joe R. Lansdale, Graham Masterton, Conrad Williams
ID: 732050, Publisher: Imajin Books, Year: 2011, Size: 930 Kb, Format: mobi
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