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Ramsey Campbell
Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death can’t break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. She’s buried with a locket that contains a lock…
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Patrick’s aunt Thelma was an artist whose work turned towards the occult. As an adult he discovers a journal of her explorations, and his son Roy becomes fascinated. His experiences…
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On a school trip, Dominic begins to suspect his teacher has reasons to be there as secret as they’re strange. Meanwhile a neighbour joins a church that puts you in…
Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic…
The present. The cult that has been growing since The Searching Dead now operates openly throughout the world. Their leader, Christian Noble, is almost a century old and inhumanly vital…
In a bid to rescue his reputation, Alex Grand ghostwrites a memoir of abuse on behalf of a survivor, Carl Batchelor. Carl’s account proves to be less than entirely reliable…
Paul Dunstan is brought back to Fellstones to participate in the village festival. When he grew up he moved away to hide from his adoptive parents and from the influence…
Tower of Fear is a lost Karloff and Lugosi film. Researcher Sandy Allan vows to track it down. She learns how haunted the production was and survivors are, and becomes…
The stunning new book from bestselling author Ramsey Campbell. "He writes of our deepest fears in a precise, clear prose that somehow manages to be beautiful and terrifying at the…
In Ramsey Campbell’s The Kind Folk, fairies are real … and they’re coming for you.
Luke Arnold is a successful stage comedian who, with his partner Sophie Drew, is about…
This is a collection of critical essays on Ramsey Campbell, author of several award-winning stories and novels in the fields of fantasy and horror, including To Wake the Dead, Incarnate…
Ramsey Campbell,Michael Arnzen
Dark Moon Books and Eric J. Guignard present this introduction to the work of Ramsey Campbell, #6 in a series of primers, with commentary and illustrations, exploring modern masters of…
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George R.R. Martin drew on Tolkien, who was inspired by Medieval epics and Norse mythology. This collection of epic fantasy tales explores the themes of good vs evil, the low-born…
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The blog that uses a title David Botham once thought up has nothing to do with him. He has no idea who is writing it or where they get their…
Thomas Hinde
‘It would be hard to imagine a novel more quietly terrifying than this sunlit nightmare of a book.’ - Robert Baldick, Daily Telegraph ‘[A]s profound as anything put out by…
Algernon Blackwood
Blackwood, alongside M.R. James, is one of the pillars of the modern horror story. With an eye for a chilling detail he leaves the reader always casting nervously behind. Blackwood…
Expanded with new stories from modern authors, written specially for this collection. H.P. Lovecraft created an evolving universe of cosmic horror with the intention that others would develop it further…
Aquatic horrors, cold-hearted killers, lovely monstrosities, fiendish depravity and desire, lost civilizations, ancient secrets, music and movies, murder, madness, pain, hideous humor, hunger, and revenge. 37 stories and poems brought…
John Llewellyn Probert
Robert wakes up on the Welsh side of the Severn Bridge with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Determined to reclaim his identity, he embarks…
Students Of Birkenhead School
In the tradition of M. R. James and celebrating the work of Ramsey Campbell, the senior students of The Birkenhead School have assembled an anthology of ghost stories. This edition…
Karl Edward Wagner
One of the most important horror collections of modern times, back in print at last!
Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) has earned a reputation as one of the finest horror writers…
Gene Wolfe,Ramsey Campbell
The sixty-fifty anniversary issue of Weird Tales showcases the work of Featured Author Gene Wolfe and Featured Artist George Barr (who contributed all the artwork). Also includes work by Ramsey…
Ramsey Campbell,Edward Lee,Jonathan Maberry
Monsters are difference, change, deviance. Life force. If they want to survive, men need monsters. Stories by Ramsey Campbell, David J. Schow, Edward Lee, Jonathan Maberry, Lucy Taylor, Owl Goingback…
Darrell Schweitzer,Stephen King,Ramsey Campbell
The special Ramsey Campbell issue of Weird Tales presents 4 short stories by this modern master, plus stories by Stephen King, Robert Bloch, and many more.
Peter Cannon
In 1975, the young Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon met the elderly Frank Belknap Long, one of H. P. Lovecraft’s closest friends. Over the next two decades, until Long’s death in…
Tananarive Due,Ramsey Campbell,Sylvain Neuvel
Dark Discoveries #38 - The Extraterrestrial Thursday Night Shift - Tananarive Due Ateuchus - Philip Fracassi Close to the News - Robert K. G. Temple Little Wing - Jeffrey Thomas…
Ramsey Campbell,John Palisano,Lisa Morton
THE MOST DEFINITIVE GUIDE INTO THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF BEING A HORROR WRITER SINCE STEPHEN KING’S ‘ON WRITING’…
We have assembled some of the very best in the business…
David Bond,Ramsey Campbell,Barbie Wilde
The definitive, full-color guide to horror films of the 1980s, when the British government and nanny state, headed by Mary Whitehouse, decided it would dictate what the viewing public couldn't-watch…
VHS Nasty: The Video Nasties is the definitive, full-colour guide to the halcyon days of the 1980s, when the British government and its nanny state, headed by the self-proclaimed and…
Neil Gaiman,Clive Barker,Ramsey Campbell
This is Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, an anthology of dark fiction that explores the beauty at the very heart of darkness.
Ramsey Campbell,Adam Nevill,Graham Masterton
Horror 101: The Way Forward - is sharp, savvy and packed with crucial information for anyone who wants to take a real bite out of the horror genre. Two taloned…
The definitive guide to filmmaking and filmmakers by the best in the field. Horror 201: The Silver Scream, the follow-up to the Bram Stoker Award nominated Horror 101 delves into…
A book of horror writing from the US, the UK and Australia. Among others, this book includes: a short story from Ray Bradbury; a novella from Peter Straub; and works…
Laird Barron,Ramsey Campbell
An anthology of dark science fiction –Cover.
