Ramsey Campbell

Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It’s where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after his parents died in an accident for which he blames himself. The way the Staveleys tried to control him made him move away and change his name. Why were they obsessed with a strange song he seemed to have made up as a child? Now their daughter Adele has found him. By the time he discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be trapped. There are other dark secrets he’ll discover, and memories to confront. The Fellstones dream, but they’re about to waken. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It’s where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after his parents died in an accident for which he blames himself. The way the Staveleys tried to control him made him move away and change his name. Why were they obsessed with a strange song he seemed to have made up as a child? Now their daughter Adele has found him. By the time he discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be trapped. There are other dark secrets he’ll discover, and memories to confront. The Fellstones dream, but they’re about to waken. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

Campbell has mastered the art of generating a sense of sustained unease. The Washington Post. A new masterpiece from the master of suspense. Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. It's where Paul Dunstan was adopted by the Staveleys after his parents died in an accident for which he blames himself. The way the Staveleys tried to control him made him move away and change his name. Why were they obsessed with a strange song he seemed to have made up as a child? Now their daughter Adele has found him. By the time he discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be trapped. There are other dark secrets he'll discover, and memories to confront. The Fellstones dream, but they're about to waken. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

"With The Way of the Worm, Campbell’s cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." — S.T. Joshi Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. 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. Dominic Sheldrake joins the cult and learns their secret of travelling through time, but only to be faced with the monstrous future the cult is invoking. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

"With The Way of the Worm, Campbell’s cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." — S.T. Joshi Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. 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. Dominic Sheldrake joins the cult and learns their secret of travelling through time, but only to be faced with the monstrous future the cult is invoking. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

The third and final novel in Ramsey Campbell's triumphant Lovecraftian trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth, where time travel, monstrous evil and the alien apocalypse combine to create a stunning conclusion for streaming TV lovers and suspense readers alike. "With The Way of the Worm, Campbell's cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." -- S.T. Joshi Book 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. 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. Dominic Sheldrake joins the cult and learns their secret of travelling through time, but only to be faced with the monstrous future the cult is invoking. FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

Table of ContentsAnd I, for One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords ........... Daniel PietersenDaisy Butcher and Janette Leaf, Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird. The World and Works of R. Murray Gilchrist: An Interview with Daniel Pietersen ........... Alex Houstoun The Friend, the Romances, and the Revelation ........... The joey ZoneR. Murray Gilchrist. I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales. Alice Through the Witching Glass ........... Oliver SheppardCosmotropia de Xam, The House That Eats the Rabbit. Our Last Gasp-"Good Lord *Choke* It's Eco-Horror " ........... The joey ZoneJon B. Cooke and Ronald E. Turner. Slow Death Zero. The Dead Worth Waking ........... Karen Joan KohoutekBrett Rutherford, ed. Wake Not the Dead Continental Tales of Terror. A Literary Journal on the Fringe ........... Tony FonsecaS. T. Joshi, ed., Penumbra No. 2. Ramsey's Rant: Living Liverpool ........... Ramsey Campbell How the Wind Twists Between Stars ........... Leigh BlackmoreAnn K. Schwader, Unquiet Stars. Breach ........... Dan Raskin Pulpfest 2021........... Darrell Schweitzer The Weird Elegance of Molly Tanzer's Early Fiction ........... Javier MartinezMolly Tanzer, A Pretty Mouth; Rumbullion; and The Pleasure Merchant. A Beautiful Bouquet ........... Dave FeltonDaniel Mills, Among the Lilies. Finally, Support for a New Type of Slasher Story ........... June PulliamGary Hendrix, The Final Girls Support Group. The Unnamed and the Unnamable ........... Hank WagnerMichael Shea, Mr. Cannyharme: A Novel of Lovecraftian Terror. A World of One ........... G za A. G. ReillyMichael Cisco, Antsocieties. Delving into Darkness ........... Darrell SchweitzerLisa Tuttle, The Dead Hours of Night. Achieving That Rare Alchemy ........... The joey Zone Roy V. Hunt, A Retrospective. Spectral Voices ........... Leigh Blackmore Elinor Mordaunt, The Villa and the Vortex: Supernatural Stories, 1916-1924. Who Is Anybody? ........... G za A. G. Reilly Ramsey Campbell, Somebody's Voice. Green Hell ........... Michael D. Miller The Green Knight. David Lowry, dir. Treats and Tricks ........... Anthony Fonseca Ellen Datlow, ed. The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 13. About the Contributors

"Campbell’s writing is intimate, darkly funny, and deeply human, balancing edge-of-the-seat suspense with heartfelt character development. This delightfully unsettling sequel does not disappoint." — Publishers Weekly Book 2 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. 1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His and Lesley’s small son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever. Roberta Parkin has become a journalist and infiltrates the new version of the Nobles’ cult, but are the experiences it offers too powerful for her to control? In order to rescue his son from the cult, if he can, Dominic must undergo them too… FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress

The second issue of Penumbra is highlighted by "Lost for Words," a new story by Ramsey Campbell, the leading writer of weird and supernatural literature of our time. In addition, veteran writers Darrell Schweitzer and Mark Samuels contribute original tales. Among younger writers, Curtis M. Lawson presents a science fiction/horror hybrid; Katherine Kerestman pens a skillful tale of vampirism; Scott J. Couturier, Geoffrey Reiter, Scott Bradfield, and Shawn Phelps offer glimpses of terror and strangeness; and Manuel Arenas contributes a moving prose poem. The issue also includes, as its classic reprint, Algernon Blackwood's first published weird tale. Among the articles in this issue, Martin Wangsgaard J rgensen examines religiosity in the early tales of Lord Dunsany; James Goho analyzes the roots of terror in the work of Caitl n R. Kiernan; John C. Tibbetts studies weird elements in the oeuvre of acclaimed science fiction writer Greg Bear; S. T. Joshi presents a comprehensive account of the weird work of Guy de Maupassant; and other essays discuss William Hope Hodgson, vampire poetry, Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborea cycle, John Collier, and other subjects. Adam Bolivar, Wade German, Ann K. Schwader, Leigh Blackmore, Maxwell I. Gold, and Frank Coffman are among the poets included in this issue. In all, Penumbra No. 2 is a cornucopia of the bizarre in fiction, essays, and verse.

"Campbell’s writing is intimate, darkly funny, and deeply human, balancing edge-of-the-seat suspense with heartfelt character development. This delightfully unsettling sequel does not disappoint." — Publishers Weekly Book 2 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy. 1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His and Lesley’s small son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever. Roberta Parkin has become a journalist and infiltrates the new version of the Nobles’ cult, but are the experiences it offers too powerful for her to control? In order to rescue his son from the cult, if he can, Dominic must undergo them too… FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress

Hailed by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as "Britain's most respected living horror writer," Ramsey Campbell has authored an astounding body of work for over half a century that embodies the weird, the supernatural, and the subtle, much of which is widely considered classics of dark fiction today. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including being made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature.Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to his work, the sixth in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover-or learn more of-the remarkable voice of Ramsey Campbell, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich. Included within these pages are: - Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book- Author interview- Biography and bibliography- Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (former humanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University)- ... and more Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Get to know Ramsey Campbell. Table of Contents includes: - Introduction by Eric J. Guignard- About Ramsey Campbell (A Biography)- The Place of Revelation- The Place of Revelation: A Commentary- The Companion- The Companion: A Commentary- The Alternative- The Alternative: A Commentary- One Copy Only- One Copy Only: A Commentary- Recently Used- Recently Used: A Commentary- The Bill- The Bill: A Commentary- Why Ramsey Campbell Matters by Michael Arnzen, PhD- In Conversation with Ramsey Campbell- My Roots Exhumed: An Essay by Ramsey Campbell- A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Ramsey Campbell

Hailed by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as "Britain's most respected living horror writer," Ramsey Campbell has authored an astounding body of work for over half a century that embodies the weird, the supernatural, and the subtle, much of which is widely considered classics of dark fiction today. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including being made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature.Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to his work, the sixth in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover-or learn more of-the remarkable voice of Ramsey Campbell, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich.Included within these pages are: - Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book- Author interview- Biography and bibliography- Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (former humanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University)- ... and more Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Get to know Ramsey Campbell.###"A fascinating study for fans seeking new reads and for librarians developing wide-ranging collections." -Library Journal"Refreshing and much-needed... Addresses significant themes and figures within the horror field." -Locus Magazine Table of Contents includes: - Introduction by Eric J. Guignard- About Ramsey Campbell (A Biography)- The Place of Revelation- The Place of Revelation: A Commentary- The Companion- The Companion: A Commentary- The Alternative- The Alternative: A Commentary- One Copy Only- One Copy Only: A Commentary- Recently Used- Recently Used: A Commentary- The Bill- The Bill: A Commentary- Why Ramsey Campbell Matters by Michael Arnzen, PhD- In Conversation with Ramsey Campbell- My Roots Exhumed: An Essay by Ramsey Campbell- A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Ramsey Campbell