Ghosts and Grisly Things
British Fantasy Society: Best Collection nominee (1998).
Ramsey Campbell's novels have justly won him acclaim as one of the best writers of the age. A three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and an eight-time winner of the British Fantasy Award, his writing has struck a chord with readers worldwide.
But throughout his career he has also written insightful, terrifying, and disturbing short fiction. Ghosts & Grisly Things is a collection of the best of Campbell's short works from the past two decades. This book also features the story Ra*e which appears here for the first time anywhere.
Contents:
- The Same in Any Language
- Going Under
- The Alternative
- Out of the Woods
- A Street Was Chosen
- McGonagall in the Head
- Through the Walls
- This Time
- The Sneering
- Between the Floors
- Where They Lived
- Root Cause
- Looking Out
- The Dead Must Die
- A Side of the Sea
- Missed Connection
- The Change
- Welcomeland
- See How They Run
- Ra*e
Ramsey Campbell
John Ramsey Campbell (born 1946) is a British horror writer.
Since Ramsey Campbell first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T. Joshi stated, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."