Ramsey Campbell began to create weirdness at the age of five, when he saw a copy of Weird Tales in a store window and perceived the cover painting as far stranger than it proved to be when he tracked it down five years later.
Born in Liverpool, England in 1946, he read all the available classics of the field and had recycled fragments in a book, subsequently published by Arkham House (Inhabitant Of The Lake and Less Welcome Tenants - 1964). He was the youngest ever author for Arkham House, being only 18 years old when this was published.
Campbell finally achieved commercial success with The Parasite (1980), thereby affording him the freedom to write whatever he wished. His other books include The Face That Must Die (1979), The Nameless (1981), The Darkest Part Of The Woods (2003) and The Overnight (2004).
The author lives in England with his wife and two children and intends to be publishing tales of terror and the supernatural for many years to come.
