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EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 36 MIN

Ramsey Campbell in conversation with Dr Rachel Knightley

from The Writers’ Gym Podcast · host Dr Rachel Knightley

Dr Rachel's Knightley's guest is Ramsey Campbell, defined by The Oxford Companion to English Literature as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. The Washington Post sums up his work as “one of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction”. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. His latest novels are Fellstones, The Lonely Lands, The Incubations, An Echo of Children and Ancestral.    His Brichester Mythos trilogy consists of The Searching Dead, Born to the Dark and The Way of the Worm. His most recent collections are Fearful Implications, a two-volume retrospective roundup (Phantasmagorical Stories) and The Village Killings and Other Novellas.    His non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably and Ramsey Campbell, Certainly. Ramsey’s Rambles collects his video reviews, and Six Stooges and Counting is an appreciation of the Three Stooges. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal is a history of horror fiction in fifty limericks.    https://www.ramseycampbell.com

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