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‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’ Oxford Companion to English Literature
‘Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today’ Time Out
‘Campbell is literate in a field which has attracted too many comic-book intellects, cool in a field where too many writers – myself included – tend toward panting melodrama… Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good’ Stephen King
‘Britain’s greatest living horror writer’ Alan Moore
‘Britain’s leading horror writer… His novels have been getting better and better’ CityLimits
‘One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers’ Oxford Star
‘The John Le Carré of horror fiction’ Bookshelf, Radio 4
‘One of the best real horror writers at work today’ Interzone
‘The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition’ The PenguinEncyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural
‘Ramsey Campbell has succeeded more brilliantly than any other writer in bringing the supernatural tale up to date without sacrificing the literary standards that early masters made an indelible part of the tradition’ Jack Sullivan, editor of the Penguin encyclopaedia
