Terry Lamsley’s first collection of supernatural fiction, Under the Crust (1994), has been called by Ramsey Campbell “a major debut in the field”. It was nominated for three World Fantasy Awards, with the title story winning for Best Novella. In 1996 came Conference With the Dead, a second collection of tales which went on to win the International Horror Critics“ Guild award for Best Collection. In both books, writes Campbell, ”Lamsley has established himself as an inheritor of all the qualities of classic English supernatural horror“.