The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash (2010): Funny, satiric examination of one very bad Lovecraft fan.The Other Names (1998): Very solid combination of a sensitive character study and a Lovecraftian menace.The Horror under Warrendown (1995): Very funny pastiche turns a famous English children's book series into a source of cosmic body horror.It most resembles Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space." The imagery and situations are sinister, horrifying, vague, and often uncomfortably vertiginous and hallucinatory. The Voice of the Beach (1982): Maybe Campbell's crowning achievement in writing a Lovecraftian story without any recourse to all the machinery of Lovecraftian terms for 'gods' and creatures and menacing books.Rarely has a Campbellian protagonist had a more emblematic last name. Blacked Out (1985): Fun scare is, as Campbell notes, Lovecraftian primarily because it appeared in his previous Lovecraftian collection Cold Print because the editor wanted to include at least one previously unpublished story.Its imagery climaxes in something deeply disturbing and chilling its 20-year-old protagonist is sympathetic and carefully drawn. The Faces at Pine Dunes (1980): A great, great story.I like it a lot - it may be literal, but the images are grand. The Tugging (1976): Campbell suggests that this is a too-literal interpretation of the Lovecraftian chestnut about the "stars being right" to bring back certain deities.Among the pictures are these: (1985): Campbell describes a series of sketches he made back in the 1960s.A Madness from the Vaults (1972): Really a deft riff on the sort of stories Clark Ashton Smith used to write, set on an alien world and involving all-alien characters.The Franklyn Paragraphs (1973): Fun, disturbing metafiction about a mysteriously vanished horror writer.A quest for a particular form of (perfectly legal, now anyway) pornography by a Physical Education teacher takes him to a bookstore he never, ever should have gone into. Cold Print (1969): Campbell's first truly great short story by my reckoning.Before the Storm (1980): Written in the 1960's, the story again shows Campbell mixing cosmic body horror and his own Lovecraftian deities with the daily grind at an office.James, a Lovecraftian island, and his own experiences at work. The Stone on the Island (1964): Campbell begins his transition from Lovecraftian pastiches to his own style of horror here, as he mixes an idea from M.R.
Visions from Brichester (2015) by Ramsey Campbell illustrations by Randy Broecker: containing the following stories and essays (dates are first publication, not composition):
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