Darker Companions: Celebrating 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell

Welcome to DARKER COMPANIONS, a celebration of Ramsey Campbell.The year 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ramsey Campbell’s first fiction collection, THE INHABITANT OF THE LAKE AND LESS WELCOME TENANTS. The Arkham House book, published in 1964 when he was just 18, was actually his second appearance at Arkham House, the first being in 1962’s August Derleth-edited anthology DARK MIND, DARK HEART, his first professional sale as an author. To commemorate the impressive event, I thought it only fitting to assemble an anthology of stories in tribute to Ramsey, written by some of his many fans and friends currently working in the field of the weird.Here’s the line-up in all of of its perverse Hymns from the Church in High Street by Scott David AniolowskiHoloow by Michael WehuntThe Long Fade into Evening by Steve Rasnic TemAsking Price by S.P. MiskowskiAuthor! Author? by John Llewellyn ProbertMeriwether by Michael GriffinThe Entertainment Arrives by Alison LittlewoodPremeditation by Marc LaidlawA Perfect Replica by Damien Angelica WaltersThere, There by Gary McMahonWe Pass from View by Matthew M. BartlettMeeting the Master by Gary FrySaints in Gold by Kristi DeMeesterThis Last Night in Sodom by Cody GoodfellowThe Whither by Kaaron WarrenUncanny Valley by Jeffrey ThomasThe Dublin Horror by Lynda E. RuckerThe Sixth Floor by Thana NiveauThe Carcass of the Lion by Christopher SlatskyThe Granfalloon by Orrin GreyLittle Black Lamb by Adam L G Nevill