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Think Yourself Lucky Ramsey Campbell

Think Yourself Lucky By Ramsey Campbell

Think Yourself Lucky by Ramsey Campbell

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The blog that uses a title David Botham once thought up has nothing to do with him. He has no idea who is writing it or where they get their information about a series of violent deaths in Liverpool. Perhaps David wont know until they come too close to himuntil he cant ignore the figure from his past that is catching up with him

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Think Yourself Lucky by Ramsey Campbell

"Campbell on vintage form." - Crime Time
David Botham just wants a quiet ordinary lifehis job at the travel agency, his relationship with his girlfriend Stephanie. The online blog that uses a title he once thought up has nothing to do with him. He has no idea who is writing it or where they get their information about a series of violent deaths in Liverpool. If theyre murders, how can the killer go unseen even by security cameras? Perhaps David wont know until they come too close to himuntil he cant ignore the figure from his past that is catching up with him
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

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"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." -- Crime Time
Britains most respected living horror writer -- Oxford Companion to English Literature
Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today -- Time Out
Britains leading horror writer... His novels have been getting better and better -- City Limits
One of Britains most accomplished horror writers -- Oxford Star
The John Le Carre of horror fiction -- Bookshelf, Radio 4
One of the best real horror writers at work today -- Interzone
The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition -- The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural
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
Englands contemporary king of the horror genre -- Atlanta Constitution
One of the few real writers in our field... In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all -- Peter Straub
Ramsey Campbell has a talent for terror he knows how to give you nightmares while youre still awake... Only a few writers can lay claim to such a level of consummate craftsmanship -- Robert Bloch
Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive -- Twilight Zone Magazine
He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget youre just reading a story -- Publishers Weekly
One of the worlds finest exponents of the classic British ghost story -- Sounds
Britains greatest living horror writer -- Alan Moore
For sheer ability to compose disturbing, evocative prose, he is unmatched in the horror/fantasy field... He turns the traditional horror novel inside out, and makes it work brilliantly -- Fasngoria
Campbell has solidly established himself to be the best writer working in this field today -- Karl Edward Wagner, The Years Best Horror Stories
When Mr Campbell pits his fallible, most human characters against enormous forces bent on incomprehensible errands the results are, as you might expect, often frightening, and, as you might not expect, often touching; even heartwarming -- Gahan Wilson in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Britains leading horror novelist -- New Statesman
Ramsey Campbell is Britains finest living writer of horror stories: considerable praise for a man whose country boasts the talents of Clive Barker and Roald Dahl, M. John Harrison and Nigel Kneale -- Douglas Winter, editor of Prime Evil
Campbell writes the most disturbing horror fiction around -- Today
Ramsey Campbell is better than all the rest of us put together -- Dennis Etchison
Ramsey Campbell is the best horror writer alive, period -- Thomas Tessier
A horror writer in the classic mould... Britains premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin -- Q Magazine
The undisputed master of the psychological horror novel -- Robert Holdstock
Perhaps the most important living writer in the horror fiction field -- David Hartwell
Ramsey Campbells work is tremendous -- Jonathan Ross
Campbell is a rightful tenant of M. R. James country, the genuine badlands of the human psyche -- Norman Shrapnel in the Guardian
One of the worlds finest exponents of the classic British ghost story... His writing explores the potential for fear in the mundane, the barely heard footsteps, the shadow flitting past at the edge of ones sight -- Daily Telegraph
The Grand Master of British horror... the greatest living writer of horror fiction -- Vector
Britains greatest horror writer... Realistic, subtle and arcane -- Waterstones Guide to Books
In Campbells hands words take on a life of their own, creating images that stay with you, feelings that prey on you, and people you hope never ever to meet -- Starburst
Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James -- Times
Campbell is literate in a field which has attracted too many comic-book intellects, cool in a field where too many writers myself included tend toward panting melodrama... Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good -- Stephen King
Easily the finest practising British horror novelist and the one whose work can most wholeheartedly be recommended to those who dislike the genre... His misclassification as a genre writer obscures his status as the finest magic realist Britain possesses this side of J. G. Ballard -- Daily Telegraph
One of the few who can scare and disturb as well as make me laugh out loud. His humour is very black but very funny, and thats a rare gift to have -- Mark Morris in the Observer
The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers -- Financial Times
He writes of our deepest fears in a precise, clear prose that somehow manages to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time. He is a powerful, original writer, and you owe it to yourself to make his acquaintance -- Washington Post
The foremost stylist and innovator in British horror fiction -- The Scream Factory
One of the centurys great literary exponents of the gothic and horrific -- Guardian
One of the all-time greats of British horror fiction -- Damien Walter in the Guardian
There are a few writers who are special. They make the world in their books; or rather, they open a window or a door or a magic casement, and they show you the world in which they live. Ramsey Campbell, for example, writes stories that, read in quantity, will re-form your world into a grey and ominous place in which strange shapes flicker at the corner of your eyes, and a patch of smoke or a blown plastic shopping bag takes on some kind of ghastly significance. -- Neil Gaiman

About Ramsey Campbell

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)

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NPB9781787580626
9781787580626
1787580628
Think Yourself Lucky by Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell
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Flame Tree Publishing
2018-11-15
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