{"product_id":"cold-print-by-ramsey-campbell","title":"Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCold Print\u003c\/strong\u003e by Ramsey Campbell \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER - EXPECTED TO SHIP IN JULY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCover art by Samuel Araya\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eInterior illustrations by Dave Felton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the tender age of fourteen, Ramsey Campbell began writing pastiches of the weird fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. In 1961 he sent a batch of stories to August Derleth, Lovecraft’s publisher and the proprietor of Arkham House. Not knowing how young Campbell was, Derleth found merit in the stories, but he made a prescient suggestion: he urged the teenager from Liverpool to set the stories in the present day and in England. Campbell immediately took Derleth’s advice, creating a network of imaginary cities in the Severn Valley—Severnford, Brichester, Goatswood, and Temphill—that echoed Lovecraft’s constellation of fictitious New England cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDerleth graciously gathered these early stories as \u003cem\u003eThe Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants \u003c\/em\u003e(1964). But soon thereafter, the English writer moved on to write dense, complex stories that used Lovecraft’s conceptions as a springboard for the expression of Campbell’s evolving vision of a world where social and domestic conflict, sexual trauma, and other modern concerns are at the forefront.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume collects stories from the two decades of Campbell’s career and display how dramatically he evolved from a competent imitator to one of the pioneering writers of weird fiction in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eOxford Companion to English Literature \u003c\/i\u003edescribes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”, and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003esums up his work as “\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eone of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction”. \u003c\/span\u003eHis awards include 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 latest novels are \u003ci\u003eFellstones\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Lonely Lands\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Incubations \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAn Echo of Children\u003c\/i\u003e. His Brichester Mythos trilogy consists of \u003ci\u003eThe Searching Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBorn to the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Worm\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHis collections include \u003ci\u003eWaking Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhosts and Grisly Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTold by the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJust Behind You\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHoles for Faces\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBy the Light of My Skull\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFearful Implications\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand a two-volume retrospective roundup (\u003ci\u003ePhantasmagorical Stories\u003c\/i\u003e) as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Village Killings and Other Novellas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHis non-fiction is collected as \u003ci\u003eRamsey Campbell, Probably\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRamsey Campbell, Certainly\u003c\/i\u003e, while \u003ci\u003eRamsey’s Rambles \u003c\/i\u003ecollects his video reviews, and \u003ci\u003eSix Stooges and Counting\u003c\/i\u003e is a book-length study of the Three Stooges. \u003ci\u003eLimericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal \u003c\/i\u003eis a history of horror fiction in the form of fifty limericks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecs:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* 6\"x 9\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* 366 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* Smyth-sewn binding with head and tail bands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* Tipped in signature page signed by the author and interior artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* Offset printed on acid-free archival paper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* Printed in Lithuania and bound in USA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chiroptera Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48570848968960,"sku":null,"price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/2182\/8608\/files\/ColdPrintfrontcovermock.jpg?v=1775520454","url":"https:\/\/chiropterapress.com\/products\/cold-print-by-ramsey-campbell","provider":"Chiroptera Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}