Think Yourself Lucky

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. Among his novels are The 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 Lucky and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach. Needing Ghosts, The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, The Pretence and The Booking are novellas. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You and Holes for Faces, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal are what they sound like. 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 Chimney”, World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978“In The Bag”, British Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978The Parasite, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1980“Mackintosh Willy”, World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1980IIncarnate, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1985The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988The 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, 1989Midnight Sun, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1991Best New Horror (co-edited with Stephen Jones), British Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology or Collection, 1991Alone With The Horrors, Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Best Collection, 1994 and World Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1994The Long Lost, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1994Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Award for Literature, 1994Premio alla Carriera a Ramsey Campbell (Prize for the Career of Ramsey Campbell), Fantafestival, Rome, 1995The House On Nazareth Hill, Best Novel, International Horror Guild, 1998Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999Ghosts And Grisly Things, British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1999Ramsey 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, 2002Told By The Dead, British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 2003Howie Award of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement, 2006Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, 2007The Grin Of The Dark, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 2008Honorary Fellowship of John Moores University, Liverpool, for outstanding services to literature, 2015Letters To Arkham, British Fantasy Award, Best Non-Fiction, 2015Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015The Searching Dead, Children of the Night Award for Best Novel, 2016Premio Sheridan Le Fanu for Campbell’s career, 2017 (given in Madrid)

"There is one thing utterly consistent about the writer – and that is his skill at unsettling the reader on a variety of levels, from a queasy minor destabilisations to jolting revelations; and these abilities are fully exercised in the new book."