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The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell (b. 1946) as “Britains most respected living horror writer.” He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature.

One of Ramsey Campbell's most well-paced and unsettling novels, The Influence was published in 1988 and has a long history Scream/Press was to do the original limited edition, for which JK Potter created a number of his photographs However, the Scream edition never appeared, and the Potter illustrations sat unused for over twenty years This new edition features Potter's photographs, a new introduction by Peter Atkins, new afterwords by Ramsey Campbell and J. K.

Otter, outtakes, and a 50 page interview with Ramsey Campbell by Stefan Dziemianowicz Over 7 × 10 inches, printed silk front panel, Japanese cloth on back panel, top-edge stain, ribbon marker, patterned endsheets, duotone images, two different paper stocks, 300 + pages, and a beautiful design igned by Ramsey Campbell and J. K.

Edition Details

• Introduction by Peter Atkins.
• Afterword by Ramsey Campbell.
• Lengthy, 50-page interview with Campbell by Stefan Dziemianowicz.
• Beautifully typeset with a lot of extras.
• Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• The Influence. Centipede Press page for The Influence
• Ramsey Campbell (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Ramsey Campbell