Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as Britains most respected living horror writer. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including theGrand Master Awardof the World Horror Convention, theLifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, theLiving Legend Awardof the International Horror Guild and theWorld Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Among his novels areThe Face That Must Die,Incarnate,Midnight Sun,The Count of Eleven,Silent Children,The Darkest Part of the Woods,The Overnight,Secret Story,The Grin of the Dark,Thieving Fear,Creatures of the Pool,The Seven Days of Cain,Ghosts Know,The Kind Folk,Think Yourself LuckyandThirteen Days by Sunset Beach.Needing Ghosts,The Last Revelation of Glaaki,The PretenceandThe Bookingare novellas. His collections includeWaking Nightmares,Alone with the Horrors,Ghosts and Grisly Things,Told by the Dead,Just Behind YouandHoles for Faces, and his non-fiction is collected asRamsey Campbell, Probably.Limericks of the AlarmingandPhantasmalare what they sound like.
His novelsThe NamelessandPact of the Fathershave been filmed in Spain, where a film ofThe Influenceis in production. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.
AWARDS:
The Chimney, World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978
In The Bag, British Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978
The Parasite, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1980
Mackintosh Willy, World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1980I
Incarnate, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1985
The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988
The Influence, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1989 and Premios Gigamesh, 1994 (for Spanish translation, Ultratumba)
Ancient Images, Children of the Night Award for Best Novel, 1989
Midnight Sun, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1991
Best New Horror(co-edited with Stephen Jones), British Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology or Collection, 1991
Alone With The Horrors, Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Best Collection, 1994 and World Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1994
The Long Lost, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1994
Liverpool Daily Post & EchoAward for Literature, 1994
Premio alla Carriera a Ramsey Campbell(Prize for the Career of Ramsey Campbell), Fantafestival, Rome, 1995
The House On Nazareth Hill, Best Novel, International Horror Guild, 1998
Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999
Lifetime Achievement Awardof the Horror Writers Association, 1999
Ghosts And Grisly Things, British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1999
Ramsey Campbell, Probably,Best Non-Fiction, International Horror Guild, 2002 and Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, 2002 and British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 2002
Told By The Dead, British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 2003
Howie Awardof the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement, 2006
Living Legend Awardof the International Horror Guild, 2007
The Grin Of The Dark, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 2008
Honorary Fellowship of John Moores University, Liverpool, for outstanding services to literature, 2015
Letters To Arkham, British Fantasy Award, Best Non-Fiction, 2015
Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015
The Searching Dead, Children of the Night Award for Best Novel, 2016
Premio Sheridan Le Fanufor Campbells career, 2017 (given in Madrid)