Ramsey Campbell is the most respected living horror writer in Britain today. He has received the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and the British Fantasy Award seven times – more awards for horror fiction than any other writer.
He was born in Liverpool in 1946, and still lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny and their children, Tammy and Matty. After working in the Civil Service and in public libraries, he became a full-time writer in 1973. He also reviews films for BBC Radio Merseyside, and is President of the British Fantasy Society. His pleasures include good food, Laurel and Hardy films, and walking; and he uses music from Hildegard von Bingen onwards as an aid to his writing. His books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Finnish, Polish, Japanese, Swedish and Dutch. He is much in demand as a reader of his stories to audiences.
`The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition’ The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural
`One of the few real writers in our field . . . In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all’ Peter Straub
`He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood . . . You forget you’re just reading a story’ Publishers Weekly
