FELLSTONES BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

I buy few novels these days, largely due to my limited reading time and just being a slow reader in general. I do, however, make an exception whenever a new Ramsey Campbell novel comes available. So, when I saw Fellstones (Flame Tree Publishing 2022) showed up for preorder, I purchased it without a second thought. […]

RAMSEY CAMPBELL SHORT STORIES LIST VI

I love reading anything by Ramsey Campbell – be it in long form or short – as a result his work gets covered here a lot. This being the case, I’ve run out of unique titles for the articles where I recount a bunch of his short stories, so from here on I’ll just be […]

THE WISE FRIEND BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

I rarely ever pre-order books. I make an exception, however, whenever there’s a new one by Ramsey Campbell. Ramsey’s most recent release is his novel The Wise Friend published by Flame Tree Press. Patrick Semple is a divorced teacher who shares custody of his teenaged son. He also has a strained, yet cordial relationship with […]

CREATURES OF THE POOL BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

Creatures Of The Pool (published in 2010) follows Gavin Meadows, a man who gives tours through Liverpool highlighting the macabre histories of the area including the noting of locations associated with a Jack the Ripper suspect, Spring Heel Jack and places where notable historical figures reportedly went mad, etc. In recent days, Gavin’s usually upbeat […]

BY THE LIGHT OF MY SKULL BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

By the Light of My Skull is Ramsey Campbell’s newest short story collection. I always love reading Ramsey’s horror tales and this collection continues on his tradition of excellence. If forced to chose my favorites from this book, I’d pick “The Moons”, “At Lorn Hall”, Reading the Signs”, “The Wrong Game” and “Fun of the […]

THE WAY OF THE WORM BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

The Way of the Worm is the final book in Ramsey Campbell’s Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. With this posting I’ve reviewed them all here at Horror Delve. Book one, The Searching Dead ( https://horrordelve.com/2016/12/24/the-searching-dead-by-ramsey-campbell-review/ ) takes place in 1950’s England where we are introduced to a young Dominic Sheldrake and his two best friends, […]

YET ANOTHER BATCH OF RAMSEY CAMPBELL STORIES

The author Horror Delve has featured far more than any other is Ramsey Campbell. Be it novels, novellas, novelettes, or short stories, for me, he never disappoints. Today we’re going to look at thirteen more excellent short horror stories by him. These have appeared in a wide variety of collections and anthologies. You can find […]

The Booking By Ramsey Campbell

The Booking is a novella by Ramsey Campbell published in 2016 by Dark Regions Press as the third book of their Black Labrinth imprint. The story follows Kiefer, a young man who accepts a position at a bookstore called BOOKS ARE LIFE which is located in a remote section of the city. His desperate need […]

BORN TO THE DARK BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL

Born To The Dark, the second book in the Brichester Mythose Trilogy by Ramsey Campbell, follows Dominic Sheldrake into adulthood. Set in the 1980’s, thirty years or so following the events of The Searching Dead (book #1), Dominic is married to his wife Leslie, and together they have a young son named Toby who’s been […]

THE KIND FOLK BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

The Kind Folk is a novel of supernatural horror written by genre grandmaster Ramsey Campbell. It was published by both PS Publishing (2012) and TOR Books (2016). I’ve long been a huge fan of Ramsey’s work. Incarnate, The Grin of the Dark, Ancient Images, Midnight Sun, Hungry Moon and many other novels of his I […]