Books by Ramsey Campbell

The present. The cult that has been growing since The Searching Dead now operates openly throughout the world. Their leader, Christian Noble, is almost a century old and inhumanly vital. Dominic Sheldrake joins the cult and learns their secret of travelling through time, but only to be faced with the monstrous future the cult is invoking.

1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever...

In a bid to rescue his reputation, Alex Grand ghostwrites a memoir of abuse on behalf of a survivor, Carl Batchelor. Carl's account proves to be less than entirely reliable; someone is alive who shouldn't be. As Alex investigates the background of Carl's accusations his grasp of the truth of the book and of his own involvement begins to crumble...

In Ramsey Campbell's The Kind Folk, fairies are real . . . and they're coming for you. Luke Arnold is a successful stage comedian who, with his partner Sophie Drew, is about to have their first child. Their life seems ideal and Luke feels that true happiness is finally within his grasp. This wasn't always the case. Growing up in a loving but dysfunctional family, Luke was a lonely little boy who never felt that he belonged. His parents did the best they could to make the lad feel special. But it was his beloved uncle Terence who Luke felt most close to, a man who enchanted (and frightened) the lad with tales of the "Other"--eldritch beings, hedge folks, and other fables of Celtic myth. When Terence dies in a freak accident, Luke suddenly begins to learn how little he really knew his uncle. How serious was Terence about the magic in his tales? Why did he travel so widely by himself after Luke was born, and what was he looking for? Soon Luke will have to confront forces that may be older than the world in order to save his unborn child.

On a school trip, Dominic begins to suspect his teacher has reasons to be there as secret as they're strange. Meanwhile a neighbour joins a church that puts you in touch with your dead relatives, who prove much harder to get rid of. As Dominic investigates, he can't suspect how much more terrible the link between these mysteries will become.

It's Ray and Sandra's first holiday on a Greek island. Why do islanders follow them wherever they go? Why do Sandra and the grandchildren have strangely similar dreams? Has Sandra been granted a wish she didn't know she made? Before their holiday is over, some of the family may learn too much about the secret that keeps the island alive.

Patrick's aunt Thelma was an artist whose work turned towards the occult. As an adult he discovers a journal of her explorations, and his son Roy becomes fascinated. His experiences at the sites scare Patrick away, but not Roy. Can he convince his son that his suspicions are real, or will what they've helped to rouse take a new hold on the world?

The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales of dark science fiction that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.

TABLE OF CONTENTS A Feast in Small Bites ........... Géza A. G. ReillyRobert Aickman, Compulsory Games Alive with Darkness ........... S. T. JoshiRamsey Campbell, By the Light of My Skull and The Way of the Worm God Is a Disease: The Mystic Exile of Andrzej Zulawski's Possession ........... Nathan Chazan Full House ........... Hank WagnerDarrell Schweitzer, The Dragon House Ringing in Apocalypse ........... Christopher RopesDavid Peak, Corpsepaint Reflections on ICFA ........... J. T. Glover Ramsey's Rant: A Modicum of Blood ........... Ramsey Campbell What Is Anything When Considered Twice?Existential Remembrance ........... Donald Sidney-FryerAll He Cared to Tell ........... Géza A. G. ReillyS. T. Joshi, What is Anything?: Memoirs of a Life in Lovecraft The Case for Weird Tales Replicas ........... Ryne Davis Transformative Visions ........... Acep HalePriya Sharma, All the Fabulous Beasts A Visionary Work Renew'd ........... Sam Gafford and The joey ZoneWilliam Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland, illustrated by John Coulthart Adam Nevill: The Sense of Dread ........... S. T. Joshi Horrifying Abnormality of the Mundane ........... Fiona Maeve GeistTim Waggoner, Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection Stephen King: Fast Food or Five Star? ........... James Arthur Anderson Signs of a Young Horror Master ........... Leigh BlackmoreJosh Malerman, Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas When Unreality Becomes Too Unreal ........... Darrell SchweitzerJosh Malerman, Unbury Carol The Beauty and Horror of Home ........... Javier MartinezAndrew Michael Hurley, Devil's Day Realities Other Than the Ordinary ........... Peter Cannon Henry Wessells, A Conversation larger than the Universe:Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic 1762-2017 About the Contributors

Dark Discoveries #38 - The Extraterrestrial Editorial Fiction Thursday Night Shift by Tananarive Due Ateuchus by Philip Fracassi Close to the News by Robert K. G. Temple Little Wing by Jeffrey Thomas The Run of the Town by Ramsey Campbell Blight by Peter Tieryas What About My Fucking Meatloaf? by Sylvain Neuvel The Distance Between Two Points by Rjurik Davidson Non-Fiction The Mysterious Beyond: An Interview with Robert K. G. Temple by Aaron J. French Two Featured Film Reviews by Colleen Wanglund Murmurs in the Dark: Carl Jung and the Lights in the Sky by Donald Tyson Yes… it was Aliens by Brett Talley What The Hell Ever Happened To… John Coyne by Robert Morrish Editor-in-Chief: Aaron J. French Cover Art: Steve Santiago Interior Design: Jess Landry

Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death can't break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. She's buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowan's hair and by the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her.

In the town of Moonwell, old rituals are still alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn't about to let that continue, so he descends into the pit where the being who's been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell. What emerges is a demon in Mann's shape, and only the town's outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong.

Come closer. Take off your mask. No, wait… leave it on. I'd like to see who you're pretending to be, or who you think you are. There'll be time enough to find out who you really are later… much later. Like when you've seduced me to your bed, or lured me to my death, or… but wait! You're not planning any of those things, are you? Why, you're just frightened; hiding behind that rubber skin for fear of being mocked or hassled; or to blend in. Well now, let's peek at who you really are, shall we? Oh… Oh, it's you?! But I thought- _____________________22 short stories with one common theme; masks.From the editor Steve Dillon:"So, why masks? I've always been a lover of masks and have collected them and worn them for as long as I can recall. One of my school paintings was a self-portrait which, having completed it and deemed it too ugly, I painted a clown-mask over the top of it. Whether or not that resonates with readers of this introduction, I think it's safe to suggest we all use masks of one sort or another, both to protect us from ourselves, as well as to prevent our detection by others, or project a different image of who we are. We hide behind them, gain strength and courage from them, deflect judgement with their use so we can 'fit in,' and so on. "For this anthology, I hoped for memorable, dark, frightening stories. Tales of psychological or supernatural horror with a mask of some sort that was central to the story. I'd originally thought of theatrical masks, or clowns such as Jimmy Stewart's character Buttons in 'The Greatest Show on Earth.' But, of course, masks can also be devised using cosmetic surgery, whether that's to hide behind, or for transformation, beautification or gender-identification. Masks are also used extensively in role-play, acting, disguise, and as part of a concealment by religious or traditional costume. Without offering any spoilers here, this anthology contains great examples of each of the above types of masks, and some I hadn't even considered… enjoy!"

This, the second in our 'Things in the Well*' series of anthologies, contains 21 short, scary tales from below the stairs. A common theme, each story is longer than the preceding one, adding to the effect of being drawn down the stairs into a gloomy cellar. to present the best tales we could find, we've included a few reprints from some of the world's best horror writers (Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Paul Kane) plus new tales from modern masters and stories by some (as yet) lesser known writers. The Thing in the Cellar by David H. Keller The Root Cellar by Toby Bennett The Basement Apartment by Mark Allan Gunnells Trapped by Theresa Derwin Purgatory in Perpetuity by David Turnbull The Cellars by Ramsey Campbell Breeding Black by Chad Lutzke The Memory Man by Steve Dillon Bloodworms by Noel Osualdini Below Deck by K.N. Johnson An Endless Echo in Every Empty Space by Matthew R Davis The Vaults by Katherine Wielechowski Creakers by Paul Kane The Bone Vine by Erin Cole The Stairwell by Chris Mason Below Ground by Charlie Walls Hell's Event by Clive Barker The Watchman by Brian Craddock Eyes of Glass by Stephen Herczeg Under the Pyramids by H.P. Lovecraft with Harry Houdini Warding by Kev Harrison 70*The first 'Things in the Well' anthology is "Between the Tracks - Tales from the Ghost Train" and is available separately.

The blog that uses a title David Botham once thought up has nothing to do with him. He has no idea who is writing it or where they get their information about a series of violent deaths in Liverpool. Perhaps David won't know until they come too close to him-until he can't ignore the figure from his past that is catching up with him...