Special, collectable hardcover edition for Ramsey Campbell's 60 years in publication.With his subtle sense of dread and use modern settings, M.R.
James' ghost stories formed a firm foundation for the modern horror story with his presence felt in all forms of literature and media.
This special collectable edition of short stories features a new introduction by the greatest current inheritor of the Jamesian mantle, Ramsey Campbell, along with one of Ramsey's own tales.The Ramsey Campbell Special Editions.
Campbell is the greatest inheritor of a tradition that reaches back through H.P.
Lovecraft and M.R.
James to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the early Gothic writers.
The dark, masterful work of the painter Henry Fuseli, a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, is used on these special editions to invoke early literary investigations into the supernatural.