Ramsey Campbell, Certainly by Ramsey Campbell (Drugstore Indian Press, June 2021, 978-1-786367-17-4, £15.99, 609pp, tp, co, cover by Ilan Sheady) [Ref. S. T. Joshi]
Collects the crop of the author’s columns and essays from the last twenty years.
- ix · Introduction · S. T. Joshi · in
- 5 · I. On General Subjects
- 7 · Introduction to Supernatural Literature of the World · Ramsey Campbell · ar Supernatural Literature of the World ed. S. T. Joshi & Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Greenwood Press, 2005
- 13 · Continuity · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism September 2009, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 16 · A Ghostly Ten · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism March 2008, as “Ramsey’s Rant”; slightly revised.
- 20 · Horror Versus Horror · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #25, Spring 2019
- 25 · Playing on the Edge · Ramsey Campbell · in from Dances with Werewolves, Virgin Books, October 2007 [Ref. Niki Flynn]; slightly expanded.
- 32 · Fannies by Gaslight · Ramsey Campbell · in from The Gas, Centipede Press, 2021 [Ref. Charles Platt]; expanded.
- 43 · The Urge to Splurge · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #27, Fall 2020
- 48 · Setting Out to Shock · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism December 2007, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 51 · Plagued by Plagiarism I · Ramsey Campbell · ar All Hallows #35, February 2004
- 60 · Plagued by Plagiarism II · Ramsey Campbell · ar All Hallows #36, June 2004
- 67 · Too Long at the Fair · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism August/September 2007, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 70 · Moreby in the Media · Ramsey Campbell · ar Shock Xpress Winter 1989
- 78 · Read On · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism March 2010, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 82 · A Can of Heinz · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #12, Fall 2012; slightly expanded.
- 94 · The Grin Beneath the Flesh · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #14, Fall 2013; slightly expanded.
- 103 · Hold That Laugh · Ramsey Campbell · ar (r)
- 107 · Granted by Granta · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #11, Spring 2012
- 111 · Restyling for Our Time · Ramsey Campbell · ar All Hallows #38, February 2005
- 116 · The Book of Lists: Horror · Ramsey Campbell · ar from “Listing Towards Horror”, Dead Reckonings #5, Spring 2009
- 120 · The British Fantasy Society · Ramsey Campbell · ar (r)
- 122 · A Ghostly Poll · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #13, Spring 2013
- 126 · Just a Coincidence · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #27, Spring 2020
- 131 · II. On H.P. Lovecraft
- 133 · Lovecraft Analysed · Ramsey Campbell · ar Morphologies ed. Ra Page, Comma Press, 2013; slightly expanded.
- 152 · Lovecraft in Retrospect, in Retrospect · Ramsey Campbell · ar Shadow September 1969; this is the revised version from Voices from Shadow ed. David Sutton (Shadow Publishing, 1994).
- 155 · Influences · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism Autumn 2008, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 158 · He Was Providence · Ramsey Campbell · in from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Apollo Library, December 2016 [Ref. H. P. Lovecraft]
- 164 · Glimpses in the Dark · Ramsey Campbell · fw The Whisperer in Darkness ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Pulps Library, 2015
- 175 · Lovecraft’s Monster · Ramsey Campbell · in Cthulhu: Deep Down Under ed. Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, Horror Australis, 2015
- 179 · III. On Classic Weird Fiction
- 181 · The Other Michael Cox · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism June 2010, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 185 · Introduction to Casting the Runes · Ramsey Campbell · in Design Mechanism, 2020 [Ref. M. R. James]
introduction to the role-playing game.
- 189 · Rending the Veil · Ramsey Campbell · in from The Great God Pan, Library of Wales, 2010 [Ref. Arthur Machen]
- 193 · A Cosmic Voyager · Ramsey Campbell · in from The House on the Borderland, Poisoned Pen Press, 2020 [Ref. William Hope Hodgson]
- 196 · Through Terror Towards Awe · Ramsey Campbell · in The Willows and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Beehive Books, 2019 [Ref. Algernon Blackwood]
- 200 · Introduction to The End of the Story · Ramsey Campbell · in Night Shade Books, 2006 [Ref. Clark Ashton Smith]
- 205 · Beyond the Doors · Ramsey Campbell · in Doors to Elsewhere by Mike Barrett, Alchemy Press, 2013 [Ref. Mike Barrett]
- 212 · Spectres from Sauk · Ramsey Campbell · in The Sleepers and Other Wakeful Things by August Derleth, The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2009 [Ref. August Derleth]
- 220 · Fritz Leiber · Ramsey Campbell · ms Gummitch and Friends (limited edition) by Fritz Leiber, Grant, 1993 [Ref. Fritz Leiber]
- 224 · A Charm of Powerful Trouble · Ramsey Campbell · in from Conjure Wife, Centipede Press, October 2011 [Ref. Fritz Leiber]
- 228 · Lieber’s Smoke Ghost · Ramsey Campbell · in Smoke Ghost and Other Apparitions by Fritz Leiber, Midnight House, 2002, as “Introduction” [Ref. Fritz Leiber]
- 231 · The Pleasures of Paranoia · Ramsey Campbell · in from Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly, Centipede Press, 2020 [Ref. John Franklin Bardin]
- 237 · On Nigel Kneale · Ramsey Campbell · ar We Are the Martians ed. Neil Snowdon, Electric Dreamhouse, 2017
- 245 · The Magical Margaret · Ramsey Campbell · in The Hole in the Moon and Other Tales by Margaret St. Clair, Dover Publications, 2019, as “Introduction” [Ref. Margaret St. Clair]
- 252 · Manly Remembered · Ramsey Campbell · ar from The Devil Is Not Mocked and Other Warnings, Night Shade Books, 2001 [Ref. Manly Wade Wellman]
- 264 · Matheson the Master · Ramsey Campbell · fw He Is Legend ed. Christopher Conlon, Gauntlet Press, 2009; slightly edited.
- 268 · “I Like to Remember Things My Own Way…” · Ramsey Campbell · in from The Day the Call Came, Valancourt Books, 2013 [Ref. Thomas Hinde]
- 272 · Introduction to The Other · Ramsey Campbell · in Millipede Press, October 2008 [Ref. Thomas Tryon]
- 276 · Ray Bradbury’s Long After Midnight · Ramsey Campbell · in PS Publishing, April 2010 [Ref. Ray Bradbury]
- 281 · IV. On Some Contemporaries
- 283 · David Case · Ramsey Campbell · ar [Ref. David Case]
conflates introductions to David Cases’s Pelican Cay (PS Publishing, 2010) and Masters of the Weird Tale (Centipede Press, 2015).
- 288 · Glen Hirshberg · Ramsey Campbell · in from The Two Sams, Carroll & Graf, 2003 [Ref. Glen Hirshberg]
- 291 · A Certain Inexplicability · Ramsey Campbell · aw To Charles Fort, With Love by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Subterranean Press, 2005
- 295 · Gary Fry · Ramsey Campbell · in The Impelled and Other Head Trips by Gary Fry, Crowswing Books, 2006 [Ref. Gary Fry]
- 299 · Getting the Bird · Ramsey Campbell · in from I Am the Bird, PS Publishing, September 2006 [Ref. T. M. Wright]
- 303 · It Isn’t Horror · Ramsey Campbell · ar All Hallows #40, October 2005
- 311 · Mark Samuels’s Glyphotech · Ramsey Campbell · in Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes by Mark Samuels, PS Publishing, 2008, as “Introduction” [Ref. Mark Samuels]
- 315 · John Smith’s Cradlegrave · Ramsey Campbell · in Rebellion, 2011 [Ref. John Smith]
- 317 · Thana Niveau’s From Hell to Eternity · Ramsey Campbell · in From Hell to Eternity by Thana Niveau, Gray Friar Press, 2012 [Ref. Thana Niveau]
- 321 · Introduction to Dust and Shadow · Ramsey Campbell · ar; an introduction to an unpublished anthology.
- 324 · A Hungrier Moon · Ramsey Campbell · in from Lunar, Bad Moon Books, 2012 [Ref. Paul Kane]
- 327 · On Joe Hill · Ramsey Campbell · ar All Hallows #41, February 2006, as “Best New Writer” [Ref. Joe Hill]
- 332 · Joe R. Lansdale’s By Bizarre Hands · Ramsey Campbell · aw By Bizarre Hands by Joe R. Lansdale, Dover, 2016, as “Afterword” [Ref. Joe R. Lansdale]
- 337 · The Whole of Joel · Ramsey Campbell · aw Something Remains: Joel Lane and Friends ed. Peter Coleborn & Pauline E. Dungate, The Alchemy Press, 2016 [Ref. Joel Lane]
- 340 · Introduction to The Burning Circus · Ramsey Campbell · in The Burning Circus ed. Johnny Mains, British Fantasy Society, 2013, as “Introduction”
- 343 · Pelan, Prince of Pulp · Ramsey Campbell · in Darkness, My Old Friend by John Pelan, Fedogan & Bremer, 2016 [Ref. John Pelan]
- 347 · One Scary Scintillating Scrupulous Scouse Scribe · Ramsey Campbell · ar FantasyCon 2011 Program Book, FantasyCon, 2011
- 354 · The Man Who Put the Best in Bestwick · Ramsey Campbell · in And Cannot Come Again by Simon Bestwick, ChiZine Publications, 2019 [Ref. Simon Bestwick]
- 359 · Steve Jones · Ramsey Campbell · pm The Mammoth Book of Stephen Jones ed. Val Edwards, PS Publishing, 2003
- 363 · V. Horror in the Media
- 365 · An Aickman Favourite · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #18, Fall 2015
- 370 · My Nasty Years · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #19/20, Fall 2016
- 376 · None of That, We’re British · Ramsey Campbell · ar
- 381 · La Maschera del Demonio · Ramsey Campbell · mr (r)
- 386 · Nightmare City · Ramsey Campbell · mr Eaten Alive! ed. Jay Slater, Plexus, 2002; restored from unauthorised editing.
- 390 · Zombie 3 · Ramsey Campbell · mr Eaten Alive! ed. Jay Slater, Plexus, 2002; restored from unauthorised editing.
- 394 · Lost Highway · Ramsey Campbell · ar Cinema Macabre ed. Mark Morris, PS Publishing, 2006
- 398 · Here’s Harry! · Ramsey Campbell · ar Festival of Fantastic Films, 2014; expanded from a booklet for the Festival of Fantastic Films, 2014.
- 412 · A Modicum of Blood · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #24, Fall 2018
- 418 · M.R. James’s “Lost Hearts” on TV · Ramsey Campbell · ar BFI, 2014, as “Lost Hearts”
a booklet accompanying Ghost Stories for Christmas, BFI DVD, 2014.
- 422 · Harvey the Invisible! · Ramsey Campbell · in from Witches Tales, Volume One, PS Publishing, November 2011
- 429 · Here Comes the Code I · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #15, Spring 2014
- 432 · Here Comes the Code II · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #16, Fall 2014, as “Four Colour Horror”
- 436 · Here Comes the Code III · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #17, Spring 2015
- 440 · Pictures That Live · Ramsey Campbell · in Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Leah Moore & John Reppion, SelfMadeHero, 2016
- 444 · Jim Pitts · Ramsey Campbell · in from The Fantastical Art of Jim Pitts, Parallel Universe Publications, 2017 [Ref. Jim Pitts]
- 448 · Musically Macabre · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism Summer 2008, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 453 · VI. On Ramsey Campbell
- 455 · Coming to Liverpool · Ramsey Campbell · ar Spook City ed. Angus Mackenzie, PS Publishing, 2009; expanded.
- 491 · Weird Tales Remembered · Ramsey Campbell · ar The Paperback Fanatic #25, March 2013
- 495 · Yearning · Ramsey Campbell · ar Mersey Minis, Volume Three: Longing ed. Deborah Mulhearn, Capsica, 2007, as “The One After”
- 497 · From the Mersey Mists: Part One · Ramsey Campbell · ar
- 508 · From the Mersey Mists: Part Two · Ramsey Campbell · ar
- 531 · A Visitor to Arkham · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #22, Fall 2017
- 538 · From the Depths of Time · Ramsey Campbell · aw The Children of Gla’aki ed. Glynn Owen Barrass & Brian M. Sammons, Dark Regions Press, 2017
- 544 · Experiments · Ramsey Campbell · cl Prism September 2010, as “Ramsey’s Rant”
- 548 · Volumes of Volumes · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #26, Fall 2019
- 555 · Film Into Book · Ramsey Campbell · cl Beware the Dark #2, May 2014, as “Ramsey’s Ruminations”
- 561 · Remembering Kirby · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #21, Spring 2017 [Ref. Kirby McCauley]
- 568 · A Day in the Life of Ramsey Campbell · Ramsey Campbell · ar (r); written for an online site.
- 571 · Signs in the Air · Ramsey Campbell · fw The Unspoken ed. William Meikle, Karōshi Books, 2013
- 573 · Read After Reading · Ramsey Campbell · aw from The Booking, Dark Regions Press, February 2016; in the limited edition only.
- 578 · Honoured by Horror · Ramsey Campbell · ar Dead Reckonings #23, Spring 2018
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