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Ramsey Campbell was born in 1946 in Liverpool. Britain’s preeminent living author of horror, as he’s been called, Campbell has so far come out with 37 novels and almost 30 short-story collections, and continues to reside in the Liverpool area.
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Dark Feasts by Ramsey Campbell
The last two books that I finished in 2024 had this in common: They were both collections that were chosen for inclusion in Jones & Newman’s excellent overview volume Horror: 100 Best Books (1988). I just loved Karl Edward Wagner’s In a Lonely Place (1983), as it turned out, and much enjoyed Lisa Tuttle’s A Nest of Nightmares (1986), although some of the stories in that latter volume had proven disappointing for me by dint of their ambiguity.
Sandy Ferber´s rating: 2.5 | Ramsey Campbell | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | 4 comments |
Previous SFF Author: John W. Campbell
I might say "formulaic" actually.
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