The Hungry Moon

"This horror story is beautifully written, populated with well-realized characters and pervaded by an increasingly chilling atmosphere of dread and anxiety." -- Publishers Weekly "In every respect, Campbell's best." -- Kirkus Reviews Britains most respected living horror writer -- Oxford Companion to English Literature Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today -- Time Out Britains leading horror writer... His novels have been getting better and better -- City Limits One of Britains most accomplished horror writers -- Oxford Star The John Le Carre of horror fiction -- Bookshelf, Radio 4 One of the best real horror writers at work today -- Interzone The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition -- The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural Englands contemporary king of the horror genre -- Atlanta Constitution One of the few real writers in our field... In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all -- Peter Straub Ramsey Campbell has a talent for terror he knows how to give you nightmares while youre still awake... Only a few writers can lay claim to such a level of consummate craftsmanship -- Robert Bloch Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive -- Twilight Zone Magazine He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget youre just reading a story -- Publishers Weekly One of the worlds finest exponents of the classic British ghost story -- Sounds Britains greatest living horror writer -- Alan Moore For sheer ability to compose disturbing, evocative prose, he is unmatched in the horror/fantasy field... He turns the traditional horror novel inside out, and makes it work brilliantly -- Fangoria Britains leading horror novelist -- New Statesman Campbell writes the most disturbing horror fiction around -- Today Ramsey Campbell is better than all the rest of us put together -- Dennis Etchison Ramsey Campbell is the best horror writer alive, period -- Thomas Tessier A horror writer in the classic mould... Britains premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin -- Q Magazine The undisputed master of the psychological horror novel -- Robert Holdstock Perhaps the most important living writer in the horror fiction field -- David Hartwell Ramsey Campbells work is tremendous -- Jonathan Ross Campbell is a rightful tenant of M. R. James country, the genuine badlands of the human psyche -- Norman Shrapnel in the Guardian One of the worlds finest exponents of the classic British ghost story... His writing explores the potential for fear in the mundane, the barely heard footsteps, the shadow flitting past at the edge of ones sight -- Daily Telegraph Britains greatest horror writer... Realistic, subtle and arcane -- Waterstones Guide to Books Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James -- Times Campbell is literate in a field which has attracted too many comic-book intellects, cool in a field where too many writers myself included tend toward panting melodrama... Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good -- Stephen King Easily the finest practising British horror novelist and the one whose work can most wholeheartedly be recommended to those who dislike the genre... His misclassification as a genre writer obscures his status as the finest magic realist Britain possesses this side of J. G. Ballard -- Daily Telegraph The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers -- Financial Times He writes of our deepest fears in a precise, clear prose that somehow manages to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time. He is a powerful, original writer, and you owe it to yourself to make his acqu

Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as "Britain's most respected living horror writer". He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain, where a film of The Influence is in production. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films. AWARDS: The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988 Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999 Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, 2007 A Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015