Dark Companions [Mass Market Paperback]

Ramsey Campbell (Author)

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About the Author

Ramsey Campbell has won more awards than any other living author of horror or dark fantasy, including four World Fantasy Awards, nine British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and two International Horror Guild Awards. Critically acclaimed both in the US and in England, Campbell is widely regarded as one of the genre's literary lights for both his short fiction and his novels. His classic novels, such as The Face that Must Die, The Doll Who Ate His Mother, and The Influence, set new standards for horror as literature. His collection, Scared Stiff, virtually established the subgenre of erotic horror.

Ramsey Campbell's works have been published in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and several other languages. He has been President of the British Fantasy Society and has edited critically acclaimed anthologies, including Fine Frights. Campbell's best known works in the US are Obsession, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, and Nazareth Hill.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Tor Books (June 15, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812516524
• ISBN-13: 978-0812516524
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #579,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hands-Down The Best Campbell Collection, August 17, 2005

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Shamus Macgillicuddy (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dark Companions (Mass Market Paperback)

Though it lacks the career-defining arc of ALONE WITH HORRORS, I really feel like this is the strongest collection of Campbell's stories, and thereby one of the strongest horror collections period. This can sit on the shelf beside GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY, easy.

When I reach the conclusion of any given Campbell story, I find myself re-reading the tale immediately, to catch all the little hints and bits of foreshadowing that he'd been dangling in my face all along. These tales are especially strong in that regard. Better every time you read them--there's always something more waiting for you.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Supernatural Fiction Masterpiece, April 2, 2001

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This review is from: Dark Companions (Mass Market Paperback)

Quite simply, this is one of the best collections of ghost stories ever written, worthy to stand on the shelf beside the work of M.R. James, Henry James, Robert Aickman, Edgar Allan Poe and whomever else you place in your horror pantheon. It is regrettable that the U.S. edition lacks the terrifying "The Trick," which appeared later in WAKING NIGHTMARES - the U.K. and U.S. editions of DARK COMPANIONS differ by 4 tales - but this is made up for by the presence of the quite different, but equally terrifying "The Pattern". How was this excellent book ever allowed to lapse out of print?

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stories that will give you nightmares, May 13, 2000

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Few writers can even come close to the strange, nightmarish stories of Ramsey Campbell and, in this collection, he is in top form. Several of these tales will keep you up late at night, looking in the shadows, listening to those stranges noise that keep getting louder, as if they were getting closer. Don't read it alone.