Ramsey Campbell Reading Order
1 series · 200 books
Ramsey Campbell stands as one of horror fiction's most prolific voices, crafting unsettling narratives across more than six decades of consistent output. His expansive body of work spans over 200 publications and numerous award-winning short stories alongside his novels, establishing him as a master of psychological dread and atmospheric terror. Campbell's influence extends beyond prose into film adaptation, with three of his novels successfully translated to the screen, cementing his impact on horror across multiple media.
Standalone Novels Series
Complete200 books
Start with The inhabitant of the lake and less welcome tenants, the first of 200 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | 13 Haunted Houses |
| 2 | 25th Anniversay Edition BEST NEW HORROR #1 [Trade Paperback] Edited by Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell |
| 3 | 65 Great Spine Chillers |
| 4 | A Feast of Frights from The Horror Zine |
| 5 | A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos |
| 6 | Algernon Blackwood Horror Stories |
| 7 | American Gothic Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) |
| 8 | BEST NEW HORROR (2) Two |
| 9 | BLACK STONE. Stories for Lovecraftian Summonings |
| 10 | Bad Seeds |
| 11 | Banquet for the Damned |
| 12 | Behold! |
| 13 | Below the Stairs: Tales from the Cellar |
| 14 | Beside the Seaside: Tales from the Daytripper (Things in the Well) |
| 15 | Best New Horror |
| 16 | Best New Horror #26 |
| 17 | Best New Horror #29 [Trade Paperback] |
| 18 | Best New Horror #30 [Trade Paperback] |
| 19 | Best New Horror (No. 2) |
| 20 | Best New Horror 2 |
| 21 | Best New Horror 3 |
| 22 | Best New Horror 4 |
| 23 | Best New Horror 5 |
| 24 | Best new horror |
| 25 | Best new horror 2 |
| 26 | Best new horror 3 |
| 27 | Between the Tracks: Tales from the Ghost Train (Things in the Well) |
| 28 | Beyond the Infinite |
| 29 | Book of Liverpool |
| 30 | Book of the Dead |
| 31 | Born to the Dark (The Three Births of Daoloth): 2 |
| 32 | By the Light of My Skull |
| 33 | CARTAS MALDITAS |
| 34 | Campbell Mixed X12 S/W |
| 35 | Chamber of Horrors |
| 36 | Chiral Mad 3 |
| 37 | Chthonic: Weird Tales of Inner Earth |
| 38 | Close to Midnight |
| 39 | Creatures of the Pool |
| 40 | Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 1 |
| 41 | Cuentos intrascendentes |
| 42 | Curse Of The Full Moon |
| 43 | Dancers at Dusk |
| 44 | Dark Discoveries - Issue #38 |
| 45 | Dark Forces |
| 46 | Dark Love |
| 47 | Dark Places, Evil Faces |
| 48 | Dark Screams. Volume One |
| 49 | Dark Voices 3 |
| 50 | Darkness |
| 51 | Dead Reckonings No. 26 |
| 52 | Dead Reckonings No. 27 |
| 53 | Der Wahnsinn aus der Gruft |
| 54 | Die Offenbarungen des Glaaki |
| 55 | Envoutement |
| 56 | Fearie Tales [signed traycased edition] |
| 57 | Fellstones |
| 58 | Four for fear |
| 59 | Gathering the Bones |
| 60 | Ghosts know |
| 61 | Grave Predictions |
| 62 | Gutted |
| 63 | Holes for Faces |
| 64 | Horror For Good |
| 65 | Horror Writers of America Present Deathport |
| 66 | Horror from The Inside Out |
| 67 | Horror! Under the Tombstone |
| 68 | How Grim Was My Valley |
| 69 | In a Lonely Place |
| 70 | Inconsequential Tales |
| 71 | Just Behind You |
| 72 | La setta |
| 73 | Letters to Arkham: The Letters of Ramsey Campbell and August Derlerth 1961 to 1971 |
| 74 | Lonely Lands |
| 75 | Mammoth Books Presents a Ghostly Gathering |
| 76 | Mammoth Books Presents the Unexpected |
| 77 | Mammoth Books Presents with the Angels |
| 78 | Monsters of Any Kind |
| 79 | NECRONOMICUM #1 (NECRONOMICUM: The Magazine of Weird Erotica) |
| 80 | New Terrors II |
| 81 | New terrors |
| 82 | Night visions |
| 83 | Nightmare's Realm |
| 84 | Poe's Progeny |
| 85 | Postscripts #10 - World Horror Convention Special Edition [hc] (Issue 10) |
| 86 | Postscripts #30/31 - Memoryville Blues [sligned slipcase]] |
| 87 | Prime Evil |
| 88 | Primogen |
| 89 | Pulp Modern |
| 90 | Ramsey Campbell Mixed X12 C/P |
| 91 | Read by Dawn (Bloody Books S.) (Read by Dawn) |
| 92 | Retrospective and Other Phantasmagorical Stories by Ramsey Campbell |
| 93 | Revelations |
| 94 | Searching Dead |
| 95 | Secret Stories |
| 96 | Shadows Over Main Street |
| 97 | Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores |
| 98 | Solomon Kane |
| 99 | Somebody's Voice |
| 100 | Spook City |
| 101 | Superhorror |
| 102 | Supernatural Literature of the World |
| 103 | Suspended in Dusk II |
| 104 | Swords Against Darkness V |
| 105 | THE BEAUTY OF DEATH - Vol. 2 : Death by Water |
| 106 | Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos |
| 107 | Ten Tall Tales: And Twisted Limericks |
| 108 | Terror Tales of the Seaside |
| 109 | The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural |
| 110 | The Best Horror of the Year Volume 5 |
| 111 | The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Four |
| 112 | The Booking |
| 113 | The Booking (Black Labyrinth) |
| 114 | The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2 |
| 115 | The Children of Gla'aki: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell's Great Old One |
| 116 | The Complete John Thunstone |
| 117 | The Core of Ramsey Campbell |
| 118 | The Far reaches of fear |
| 119 | The Hounds of Hell |
| 120 | The Inhabitant of The Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants [hc] |
| 121 | The Kind Folk: A Novel |
| 122 | The Last Revelation of Gla'aki |
| 123 | The Madness of Dr. Caligari |
| 124 | The Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror |
| 125 | The Red Brain: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos |
| 126 | The Refuge Collection Book 1 |
| 127 | The Seven Days Of Cain |
| 128 | The Spawn of Cthulhu |
| 129 | The Spectral Book of Horror Stories |
| 130 | The Twelve Frights of Christmas |
| 131 | The Wishmaster |
| 132 | The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 |
| 133 | The giant book of best new horror |
| 134 | The giant book of terror |
| 135 | Thieving Fear |
| 136 | Think Yourself Lucky (Fiction Without Frontiers) |
| 137 | Thirteen days by Sunset Beach |
| 138 | Those Who Wait |
| 139 | Through the Cracks, the Shadows Wait |
| 140 | Told by the Dead |
| 141 | Told by the Dead |
| 142 | Uncanny banquet |
| 143 | Uncanny banquet |
| 144 | Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror |
| 145 | Visions from Brichester [Trade Paperback] |
| 146 | Way of the Worm |
| 147 | We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale |
| 148 | Weird Tales 317-320 Fall 1999-Summer 2000 |
| 149 | Where Nightmares Come From |
| 150 | Young blood |
| 151 | Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! |
| 152 | The inhabitant of the lake and less welcome tenants 1964 |
| 153 | Demons by daylight 1973 |
| 154 | The height of the scream 1976 |
| 155 | Shadows 1978 |
| 156 | New Terrors 1980 |
| 157 | New Terrors Two 1980 |
| 158 | TO WAKE THE DEAD 1980 |
| 159 | The parasite 1980 |
| 160 | Dark companions 1982 |
| 161 | Night of the claw 1983 |
| 162 | The Gruesome Book 1983 |
| 163 | The Face That Must Die 1984 |
| 164 | Omnibus of New Terrors 1985 |
| 165 | Black Wine 1986 |
| 166 | Dark feasts 1987 |
| 167 | Masques II 1987 |
| 168 | Fine Frights 1988 |
| 169 | Modern Masters of Horror 1988 |
| 170 | New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos 1988 |
| 171 | Ancient images 1989 |
| 172 | Campbell Boxed Set - Mass Market 1990 |
| 173 | Midnight Sun 1990 |
| 174 | Needing Ghosts 1990 |
| 175 | The Dark Descent 1990 |
| 176 | THE FACE THAT MUST DIE: At the Back of My Mind 1991 |
| 177 | The count of eleven 1991 |
| 178 | Waking nightmares 1991 |
| 179 | Alone with the horrors : the great short fiction of Ramsey Campbell, 1961-1991 1993 |
| 180 | Strange things and stranger places 1993 |
| 181 | The long lost 1993 |
| 182 | Two Obscure Tales 1993 |
| 183 | Ultratumba 1993 |
| 184 | Shadows over Innsmouth 1994 |
| 185 | The one safe place 1995 |
| 186 | Far Away & Never 1996 |
| 187 | The House on Nazareth Hill 1996 |
| 188 | Ghosts and Grisly Things 1997 |
| 189 | Nazareth Hill 1997 |
| 190 | Scary! 1998 |
| 191 | The last voice they hear 1998 |
| 192 | Silent children 2000 |
| 193 | Pact of the fathers 2001 |
| 194 | Dead but Dreaming 2002 |
| 195 | Meddling with Ghosts 2002 |
| 196 | Ramsey Campbell, Probably 2002 |
| 197 | The darkest part of the woods 2002 |
| 198 | The Black Spiral 2003 |
| 199 | Secret story 2006 |
| 200 | The Grin of the Dark 2007 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Ramsey Campbell written?
- Ramsey Campbell has written 200 books across 1 series. Their published works span from 1964 to 2007.
- Are Ramsey Campbell's series complete?
- Ramsey Campbell has 1 completed series.