Ramsey Campbell

Tired cliches are the stuff of any lazy journalist’s repertoire, so here’s one: Living legend. That fully applies to Ramsey Campbell, one of the very small and very select circle of modern British horror and dark fiction writers – Clive Barker being the only other one who readily comes to mind – to have truly […]

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Veteran British horror writer Ramsey Campbell has written a piece for Nightmare Magazine, “The H Word: H for Honesty,” which follows on naturally from my earlier post on Simon Strantzas and his writings about the genre. And Campbell calls for a clear, unapologetic commitment to the genre by authors, instead of using euphemisms like dark [...]

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