Ramsey Campbell Books In Order
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The Searching Dead | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Born to the Dark | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Way of the Worm | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Black Labyrinth Books
The Walls of the Castle | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Prisoner 489 | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Booking | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Darkside Books
Darkside: Horror for the Next Millenium | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Darker Side: Generations of Horror | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Lost on the Darkside: Voices From The Edge of Horror | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alone on the Darkside: Echoes From Shadows of Horror | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dead Bait Books
Dead Bait | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Bait 2 | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dead Bait 3 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Anthology Books
Best New Horror 2 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 3 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror 6 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Best New Horror #26 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Night Visions Books
Night Visions: In the Blood | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 2 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 3 | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions: The Hellbound Heart | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 5 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Skin Trade | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 9 | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 10 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 11 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 11 | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night Visions 12 | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Universal Horror Library Books
The Werewolf Of London | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Creature From The Black Lagoon | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Complete 6 Book | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
The Doll Who Ate His Mother | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wolfman | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bride of Frankenstein | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dracula's Daughter | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Face That Must Die | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
To Wake the Dead/ The Parasite | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Nameless | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Incarnate | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Claw | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Night of the Claw | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Obsession | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hungry Moon | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Influence | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ancient Images | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Midnight Sun | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Needing Ghosts | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Count of Eleven | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Long Lost | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The One Safe Place | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House on Nazareth Hill | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Voice They Hear | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Children | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pact of the Fathers | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Darkest Part of the Woods | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Overnight | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Secret Story | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Grin of the Dark | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thieving Fear | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Creatures of the Pool | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Solomon Kane | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seven Days of Cain | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts Know | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Kind Folk | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Think Yourself Lucky | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wise Friend | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Somebody's Voice | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fellstones | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Watch the Birdie | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
With the Angels | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last Revelation Of Gla'aki | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pretence | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Double Room - eBook Single | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Inhabitant Of The Lake And Less Welcome Tenants | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demons by Daylight | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Height of the Scream | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Companions | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold Print | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Black Wine | (1986) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scared Stiff | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Feasts | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Waking Nightmares | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Alone With the Horrors | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Obscure Tales | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Things and Stranger Places | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Far Away & Never | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghosts and Grisly Things | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Told by the Dead | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Liverpool | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inconsequential Tales | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Inhabitant of The Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants [signed jhc] | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cut Corners Volume 1 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Holes for Faces | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
10,000 Ghost Stories | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hornsea Hauntings | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Visions from Brichester | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By the Light of My Skull | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Black Room Manuscripts, Volume Four | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just Behind You | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Companion & Other Phantasmagorical Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Retrospective & Other Phantasmagorical Stories Volume 2 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Core Of Ramsey Campbell | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Arkham | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ramsey Campbell, Probably | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Shadows Over Innsmouth Anthology Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Fossil Lake Books
Fossil Lake | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fossil Lake II: The Refossiling | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Kyle Murchison Booth Books
Publication Order of Hot Blood Books
Hot Blood | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hottest Blood | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deadly After Dark | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seeds of Fear | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stranger by Night | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fear the Fever | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kiss and Kill | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crimes of Passion | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Blood X | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fatal Attractions | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Strange Bedfellows | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Passions | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of The Best Horror of the Year Anthology Books
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Two | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Five | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Nine | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10 | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 11 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 12 | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Dark Delicacies Books
Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World's Greatest Horror Writers | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Delicacies II: Fear | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Delicacies III: Haunted | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. |
Publication Order of The Book of Cthulhu Books
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu II | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Anthology series. Numerous authors. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Star Book of Horror No. 1 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Whispers | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New Terrors II | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Scaremongers | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales From the Forbidden Planet | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Barbarians 2 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hunger for Horror | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Fantasies | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cold Blood | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu's Heirs | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cthulhu 2000 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Millenium | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hot Blood X | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 3: The Gollancz Book of Horror | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
October Dreams | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The End of the Line | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Book of Cthulhu | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cut Corners Volume 1 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Devil's Coattails | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror for Good | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Memoryville Blues: A Postscripts Anthology 30/31 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tales of Jack the Ripper | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chiral Mad 2 | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fossil Lake | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shadows Over Main Street | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Horror 201: The Silver Scream Vol. 1 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chiral Mad 3 | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Grave Predictions | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK's Healthcare Workers | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Out of the Ruins: The Apocalyptic Anthology | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the MostHaunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Classic Monsters Unleashed | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ramsey Campbell is a renowned English editor, critic, and author of horror, dark fantasy, thriller, and science fiction stories. He has been actively involved in writing and editing for more than fifty years now and has penned hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. Many of his books have become classics. Campbell has successfully adapted three of his books into films for the non-English speaking audience. He came to prominence for the first time in the 1960s. Since then, he has been cited by the critics as one of the leading authors in this field. Several of his fellow authors have described him as the finest living author of the weird fiction genre in Britain. S. T. Joshi has stated that Campbell will be regarded by the future generations as the leading writer of horror novels of our generation, same as Blackwood or Lovecraft.
Author Campbell was born as John Ramsey Campbell on January 4, 1946, in Liverpool, England. He received his early education at St. Edward’s College in Liverpool by the Congregation of Christian Brothers. His parents, Nora and Alexander Campbell, became estranged after his birth and had a rift throughout his childhood and teenage years. Campbell’s dad was more like a shadowy figure for him as he would rarely see him around. For nearly 20 years, he did not see him face to face. The long rift resulted in his mother getting degenerated into schizophrenia and paranoia, which made Campbell’s life too difficult. He has discussed this experience in detail in the afterword and introduction of his book, The Face That Must Die. Several other autobiographical manuscripts describing the life of Campbell are present in Section V of his essay collection. Campbell has seen his mother write a lot of novels and short stories. She was too much involved in writing, but was not able to get her work published, except a few short stories in magazines. So, she encouraged Campbell to start sending his work to publishers at a young age.
Campbell grew up in a blitzed landscape in the post-war Liverpool and was avidly indulged in studying the works of Ambrose Bierce, Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Stephen King, Robert Bloch, Franz Kafka, and others. Campbell had written his earlier tales when he was as young as eleven years old. They included a set of 16 self-illustrated stories and one poem, that he called ‘Ghostly Tales’. He intended to send them to Phantom for publication, but his mom persuaded him to finish writing a whole book before submitting his work. Campbell was motivated by his English teacher to write more stories and read them out in the class. Later, Campbell sent his collection to many publishers under the pseudonym of John R. Campbell. Although all of them rejected it, one of them encouraged Campbell in the rejection letter to continue writing and hone his writing skills.
A few years later, Campbell found success in getting his first book published. Since then, he has not looked back and published many books and short story collections in his writing career. Campbell has used several pen names for writing different genres of books, including Jay Ramsay, Carl Dreadstone, Montgomery Comfort, etc. He was able to publish Ghostly Tales thirty years after he first wrote them. All the film adaptations of Campbell’s books have been in the Spanish language. Other than writing novels, Campbell has edited numerous anthologies, including Uncanny Banquet, New Terrors, New Tales of Cthulhu Mythos, New Terrors II, etc.
Campbell is married to the daughter of Bertram Chandler, Jenny Chandler. They have 2 children, Matthew and Tamsin, and live in Merseyside. Campbell described Jenny as the best part of himself. She has supported at all stages of his life and career. While Campbell was involved in his works, Jenny spent her time by working as a teacher. The couple is fond of traveling and fine dining. Campbell also likes to undertake public speaking and giving readings of his books at literary events. He has claimed that if it had not been for horror writing, he might have chosen the path of stand-up comedy.
Ramsey started a new book series called The Three Births of Daoloth series in 2016. It features the lead characters in the roles of Dominic Sheldrake, Jim, Roberta, Christian Noble, Toby, Bobby, etc. Campbell has set the events in each book of this series at a gap of over 30 years from the previous one. He has done the setting of the plots in Liverpool and France. The debut book of this series is entitled ‘The Searching Dead’. It was released by PS Publishing in 2016. Initially, Dominic Sheldrake is shown remembering his childhood years during the fifties in Liverpool. He is not able to forget certain events from his past life, including the one in which an old boy from his school gave a talk on World War I. When the history teacher took the entire class to France on a field visit, he expected it to be a trip full of adventures. Instead, Dominic came across a series of events that he could not get over. He learns that a neighbor is involved in old practices that are darker and older than spiritualism.
Dominic also stumbles upon an old journal that tells about the universe’s occult nature. He shares the secret journal with his friends, Jim and Roberta, as well as its contents. They decide to team up and try to stop what is taking root under the church in their community amidst the blitz. Dominic fears that the thing he and his friends are facing now is much worse than the exploitation that they have been facing until now. The second volume of this successful series is known as ‘Born to the Dark’. It was also published by PS Publishing in 2017. This book opens around 30 years after the events in the first book. Dominic Sheldrake is now married and has a son. He is certain that he has freed himself and his family from the occult influence.
While Toby experiences strange dreams and nocturnal seizures, Claudine and Dominic find a facility that helps to treat children with Toby’s condition. They wonder if their visions are just dreams or truths that most people are not able to envisage. As Dominic is forced to confront the strange figures from the past, he calls his old friends for help once again.
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