"The Companion" and "The Retrospective" & Other Phantasmagorical Stories by Ramsey Campbell with The Village Killings & Other Novellas

Volume I: The Companion and Other Phantasmagorical Stories by Ramsey Campbell

Cover, Endpapers and All Interior Art:  James Hannah

Punters, salutations! Please start here if you like, or possibly sample a tale or two. You’ll be perfectly safe. Presenting sixty years’ worth of my published shorts, a personal selection, was Pete’s suggestion—Pete Crowther, I mean, the man behind PS.

CONTENTS

• The Companion,The Render of the Veils,
• The Cellar, The Scar, The Guy, Call First, Napier Court,
• The End of a Summer’s Day, The Words that Count, In the Bag,
• The Invocation, The Man in the Underpass, Baby, The Pattern,
• The Chimney, The Change, The Brood, Mackintosh Willy, Above the World ,
• The Show Goes On, The Ferries, The Depths, Down There,
• Calling Card, The Fit, The Hands, Second Sight,
• Again Just Waiting, Seeing the World, Apples,
• Where the Heart Is, The Guide, Welcomeland

Volume II: The Retrospective and Other Phantasmagorical Stories by Ramsey Campbell

CONTENTS

Introduction: Part Secundus; Meeting the Author; The Alternative; A Street was Chosen;  The Same in Any Language;  Where They Lived; The Word; The Dead Must Die;  Going Under; Never to be Heard; The Entertainment; No Strings; No Story in it; The Retrospective;  Feeling Remains; The Place of Revelation; The Decorations; Just Behind You; Skeleton Woods; Digging Deep;  Respects;  Passing Through Peacehaven; The Long Way;    The Moons;  The Room Beyond; The Rounds;  With the Angels;  Holding the Light; Getting it Wrong; At Lorn Hall;  The Callers;  Reading the Signs;   The Wrong Game

Volume III: The Village Killings & Other Novellas

The Village Killings and Other Novellas is a companion to the two-volume Ramsey Campbell retrospective Phantasmagorical Stories, also published by PS. 'Needing Ghosts' is one of Campbell’s most nightmarish comedies of paranoia, a journey through a world where nothing can be trusted to be what it seems. In 'The Pretence' an ordinary family comes to realise that a profound unnoticed change has overtaken the world—perhaps a kind of apocalypse. 'The Booking' takes us to a bookshop that may extend to the limits of imagination, but why do books and the booksellers never leave the shop for long? 'The Enigma of the Flat Policeman' uses one of the author’s early stories as a lens to examine his life at the time it was produced—his haunted adolescence and his determination to write. Written specially for this volume, 'The Village Killings' sends a detective novelist to investigate a situation you might find in a whodunit and challenges the reader to get there first. It’s a highly personal take on the Agatha Christie tradition, which it finds less cosy than it’s often said to be. Spanning more than thirty years, the collection displays Campbell’s range, from the uncanny to the psychological, the disturbing to the comical.

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