Ramsey Campbell - Fearful Implications

[andydecker]

Ramsey Campbell – Fearful Implications (PS Publishing, 2023, 348 pages)

Cover: Ilan Sheady

Contents:
Speaking Still (2017)
First a Bird (2021)
The Stillness (2017)
The Fourth Call (2021)
The Dreamed (2017)
Someone to Blame (2022)
How He Helped (2017)
The Bill (2017)
Girls Dream (2023)
A Name For Every Home
The Run of the Town (2018)
Fully Boarded (2017)
The Devil in the Details (2018)
Some Kind of a Laugh (2018)
Play with Me (2019)
But Once A Year (2021)
Brains (2021)
Getting Through (2019)
Extending the Family (2020)
Still Hungry (2021)
Wherever You Look (2020)
Afterword: The Old Grows New (November 2022)

This is the new collection, a beautiful edition as always by PS Publishing who has a great and friendly service. I read only the afterword so far. Getting old oneself it is comforting to read a new afterword by Ramsey Campbell and see what he was doing in the last years. Next year he has published fiction for 60 years. A rare and astonishing thing, especially in genre. I don't know how he manage this, but it is – and I don't use this word lightly as it has lost nearly all its meaning through overuse – inspiring.

[The Lurker In The Shadows]

I ordered this one today. I'm intrigued by the book's description of a story involving an 'infamous nobleman and his dread companion'... which sounds like a sequel to a favourite story by a favourite ghost story writer.