Ramsey Campbell

   

Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many to be one of the masters of late 20th century horror fiction.

His early work was greatly influenced by the work of H. P. Lovecraft; his first collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, is a volume of Cthulhu Mythos stories and was published by Arkham House in 1964. At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them around the fictional city of Brichester, located near the River Severn, apparently downstream of Bristol.

Campbell has since written numerous stories completely unrelated to the Cthulhu Mythos.

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