All that said, Graham Greene and Nabokov are equally crucial to my stuff.ģ. Shirley Jackson for delicacy of disquiet – restraint that adds to the power of her work. Blackwood and Machen for reaching through terror towards awe.
R James for images that show just enough to suggest far worse. Lovecraft for his sense of structure and modulation of language, which is far more varied in his work than is often appreciated. Who are your top five horror-writing inspirations? Other elements – the birds in the wall, for example, and the post office in the cottage – were observed later on, and all the named locations are real or were (alas, the Swan Hotel no longer exists).Ģ. Certain images – the view into the heart of the heather, for instance – are described pretty well as I experienced them. “Above the World” has its roots in an acid trip I took in the mid-seventies, when Jenny and I climbed Skiddaw above Keswick. What was the inspiration for your SiD2 story? A film reviewer for BBC Radio Merseyside since 1969, he is also President of both the British Fantasy Society and the Society of Fantastic Films.Since today is the official release day of Suspended in Dusk II, how about I let the legendary Ramsey Campbell take over the blog?ġ. Lovecraft Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement, and the International Horror Guild's Living Legend Award. Ramsey Campbell has won multiple World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards and Bram Stoker Awards, and is a recipient of the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the Howie Award of the H.P. Forthcoming is another novel, The Black Pilgrimage. PS Publishing issued the novel Ghosts Know, and the definitive edition of Inhabitant of the Lake, which included all the first drafts of the stories. He has also edited a number of anthologies, including New Terrors, New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Fine Frights: Stories That Scared Me, Uncanny Banquet, Meddling with Ghosts, and Gathering the Bones: Original Stories from the World's Masters of Horror (with Dennis Etchison and Jack Dann). His short fiction has been collected in such volumes as Demons by Daylight, The Height of the Scream, Dark Companions, Scared Stiff, Waking Nightmares, Cold Print, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, and Just Behind You. His first book, a collection of stories entitled The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, was published by August Derleth's legendary Arkham House imprint in 1964, since when his novels have included The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The Face That Must Die, The Nameless, Incarnate, The Hungry Moon, Ancient Images, The Count of Eleven, The Long Lost, Pact of the Fathers, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain and the movie tie-in Solomon Kane. Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool, where he still lives with his wife Jenny.
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