Ramsey Campbell

The Profile

Ramsey Campbell (born 1946) is an English author from Liverpool, acclaimed for his psychological and weird horror fiction and for work engaging with Lovecraftian themes.

Campbell began publishing in the 1960s. August Derleth and Arkham House published his early collection The Inhabitant Of The Lake And Less Welcome Tenants (1964). He created an English setting for many of his tales (towns such as Brichester, Goatswood and others) and has written acclaimed novels including The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The Face That Must Die, The Nameless, and The Last Revelation Of Gla'aki (2013).

The provided review praises Ramsey Campbell's return to Lovecraftian themes in The Last Revelation of Gla'aki. It highlights Campbell's atmospheric settings, focus on paranoia and character, and his English reworking of Lovecraftian geography. The reviewer recommends the novel to fans of the Cthulhu Mythos.