While on an African safari, a writer finds a mysterious talisman. Upon his return home, it becomes clear that the totem is possessed of evil. This book by horror master Campbell was originally written under the pseudonym Jay Ramsey.
A former professor offers disgraced film critic Simon the chance to write a book on Tubby Thackeray, a long-lost comedian of the silent-film era. Simon is determined to find out the truth behind the jolly fat man's disappearance from film--and from the world.
Everyone involved in the film "Tower of Fear", from the director to the set designer, had died suddenly or left the movie world to escape those images trapped on celluloid. Film editor Sandy Allan decides to investigate the film and the quest takes her to Redfield, a town which seems to be in the throes of primordial evil. Other works by Ramsey ...
Moving into a home where a serial killer's victim had been hidden, a woman and her son take in a horror writer as a lodger, who, unbeknownst to them, has a not insignificant connection to the killer--a man who hunts children exclusively and who, contrary to popular opinion, is not dead....Nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
A retrospective of acclaimed horror writer Ramsey Campbell's short fiction, the original Arkham House edition of this book won both the 1993 Bram Stoker Award and 1994 World Fantasy Award. This revised edition adds one of Campbell's earliest published stories, "The Tower from Yuggoth," and an updated preface.
Along with his family, a man returns to the village of his youth. Once there, they begin to experience strange events that seem to be connected to the forbidding forest that lurks on the edge of town.
A quiet little town, where for generations the people have gathered on Midsummer's Eve to decorate a cave with flowers, echoing ancient Druid Customs. This is the town the evangelist comes to, anxious to stop the pagan activity and vanquish the evil force in the pit before the evil spreads to the nearby nuclear missile base.
This landmark volume marked the first U.S. publication of British horror phenomenon, Tim Lebbon. "As the Sun Goes Down" collected 90,000 words of his best work, including several original pieces, like "The Unfortunate", which went on to win a Bram Stoker award, and was included in several "Year's Best" anthologies. "As the Sun Goes Down" also ...
This is collecton of 20 short stories by award-winning horror master Campbell, including one, "Ra*e," which is published here for the first time anywhere.
When Daniella Logan, daughter of a film impresario, discovers a group of robed men performing a ritual on her father's grave, she stumbles upon a macabre pact involving her father's friends--politicians, actors, police officials, and surgeons--that calls for the sacrifice of their firstborn childre
A writer wins a magazine contest, and the first prize is publication of his terrifying short story about a murder on an underground train. Then his imagination runs dry--he doesn't have another story in him. He'll just have to kill someone new.
After a series of strange mishaps, a desperate bookstore manager musters his staff for an overnight inventory. But when the last customer leaves and the staff is sealed in, they find out the bookstore is the doorway to hell.
Geoff Davenport, a happily married man and respected TV journalist, seems to have everything going for him. But after completing an expose of daycare centers, he begins to get strange phone calls. Meanwhile, there has been a string of serial murders that target married couples. During the investigation into the murders, Geoff's world begins to ...
Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, and the British Fantasy award of the same category, this anthology includes the best horror stories from 1991. Stories by Jonathan Carroll, Thomas Ligotti, Brian Lumley, Karl Edward Wagner, Garry Kilworth and Peter Straub are included.
This exciting installment in the erotic horror series takes readers into an underworld of provocative delights and painful demises, with bone-chilling stories by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, and Ramsey Campbell. Original.
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