“He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood.

“Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive” (Twilight Zone Magazine) Only a few writers can lay claim to such a level of consummate craftsmanship” (Robert Bloch) “Ramsey Campbell has a talent for terror – he knows how to give you nightmares while you’re still awake. In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all” (Peter Straub)

“One of the few real writers in our field. “England’s contemporary king of the horror genre” (Atlanta Constitution) “Ramsey Campbell has succeeded more brilliantly than any other writer in bringing the supernatural tale up to date without sacrificing the literary standards that early masters made an indelible part of the tradition” (Jack Sullivan, editor of the Penguin encyclopaedia) “The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition” (The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural) “One of the best real horror writers at work today” (Interzone) “The John Le Carre of horror fiction” (Bookshelf, Radio 4) “One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers” (Oxford Star) His novels have been getting better and better” (City Limits) “Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today” (Time Out) “Britain’s most respected living horror writer” (Oxford Companion to English Literature) Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established the award winners, and exciting, original voices. if the child who takes her place in the family isn’t Rowan, Rowan may be somewhere else not quite like our world…įLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing.

Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her. She’s buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowan’s hair, and soon afterwards Rowan is befriended by a mysterious uncannily intelligent girl of her own age. Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death can’t break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. 'This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another.' Publishers Weekly

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