His pleasures include classical music, good food and wine, and whatever’s in that pipe. Ramsey Campbell lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny. He is the President of the British Fantasy Society and of the Society of Fantastic Films. His regular columns appear in Prism, Dead Reckonings and Video Watchdog. His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead and Just Behind You, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. Forthcoming are The Last Revelation of Gla’aki and The Pretence (both novellas) and Bad Thoughts. ISBN 9780747240594 (978-0-7472-4059-4) Softcover, Headline, 1993 The Face That Must Die. The paranoid outlook of the books main character, Horridge, is a grim commentary on a bleak Liverpool suburb and Thatcher-era England. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know and The Kind Folk. Synopsis About this title Ramsey Campbell’s daring look into the mind of a psychotic killer was published in truncated form in 1979 an expanded edition was later published in 1982.
He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association and the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”.
0 kommentar(er)
