Nazareth Hill Ramsey Campbell

1 “That Ill-Rumoured and Evilly-Shadowed Seaport”: Ramsey Campbell’s Lovecraftian Secret Histories of Liverpool Andy Sawyer 1

2 “A Puppet’s Parody of Joy”: Dolls, Puppets, and Mannikins as Diabolical Other in Ramsey Campbell Leigh Blackmore 23

3 Ramsey Campbell and the Twenty-First-Century Weird Tale Richard Bleiler 47

4 An Archaeology of Urban Dread: The Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell James Goho 55

5 Glimpses of Absolute Power: Ramsey Campbell’s Concept of Evil Simon MacCulloch 91

6 Master and Pupil: August Derleth and Ramsey Campbell’s First Book S. T. Joshi 101

7 Mastering Darkness: An Interview with Ramsey Campbell Stefan Dziemianowicz 113

8 Grinning in the Dark: The Humor of Ramsey Campbell John Llewellyn Probert 147

9 A Local Afterlife Joel Lane 155

10 What Develops in the Darkest Rooms of the Mind: The Photographic Technique in Nazareth Hill and The Seven Days of Cain Anthony J. Fonseca 159

11 A Religion of His Own Making: Peter in Obsession Gary William Crawford 171

Selected Bibliography 179

Index 183

About the Editor 191

About the Contributors 193