The Collected Short Fiction

So I trust this hasn't been too embarrassing. I haven't found it so, but then I may sometimes lack tact in these areas: I once greeted a friend I met in a sex shop, who immediately fled. Still, I'm committed to telling as much of the truth as I can, as every writer should be. If we can't tell the truth about ourselves, how can we presume to do so about anyone or anything? Secretiveness is a weakness, whereas honesty is strength.

If I'm told my field is incapable of something, I'll give it a try--hence these and others of my tales. No doubt the irritation of censorship also has something to do with it: here it seems to have behaved like Spanish fly. On that basis I should like to thank censors, especially the self-appointed, for helping me write. I love them all. After all, as they must recognize, we hate most in others what we can't admit about ourselves.

RAMSEY CAMPBELL

Wallasey, Merseyside

28 May 2001

Index Of Stories

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Above the World (1979)

Accident (1987)

Accident Zone (1977)

After the Queen (1977)

Again (1981)

Agatha's Ghost (1999)

All for Sale (2001)

At The End of a Summer's Day (1973)

The Alternative (1994)

Among the pictures are these: (1980)

The Announcement (2005)

Another World (1987)

Apples (1986)

Ash (1976)

At First Sight (1973)

Baby (1976)

Bait (1983)

Becoming Visible (1999)

Bedtime Story (1986)

Before the Storm (1980)

Being an Angel (1989)

Beside the Seaside (1976)

Between the Floors (1997)

Beyond Words (1986)

Beyond Worlds (1986)

Blacked Out (1984)

The Body in the Window (1995)

Boiled Alive (1986)

Bradmoor (1987)

Breaking Up (2004)

Broadcast (1971)

The Brood (1980)

The Burning (1981)

Burning (2009)

Call First (1975)

Calling Card (1982)

Cat and Mouse (1972)

The Cellars (1967)

The Change (1980)

The Childish Fear (1966)

The Chimney (1977)

The Christmas Present (1975)

Chucky Comes to Liverpool (2010)

The Church in High Street (1962)

Cold Print (1969)

The Companion (1976)

Concussion (1973)

Conversation in a Railway Carriage (1987)

Conversion (1977)

The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash (2010)

Cyril (1969)

The Dark Show (1976)

Dead Letters (1978)

The Dead Must Die (1992)

The Decorations (2005)

The Depths (1982)

The Devil's Cart (1987)

Digging Deep (2006)

Direct Line (2004)

Dolls (1976)

Double Room (2008)

Down There (1978)

Dragged Down (2009)

Drawing In (1978)

The Enchanted Fruit (1973)

End of the Line (1991)

The Entertainment (1999)

Eye of Childhood (1982)

Eyes End (2002)

The Face in the Desert (1986)

The Faces at Pine Dunes (1980)

Facing It (1995)

Fear the Dead (2003)

Feeling Remains (2003)

The Ferries (1982)

The Fit (1980)

For You to Judge / See How They Run (1993)

The Franklyn Paragraphs (1973)

The Friend (1987)

The Gap (1980)

Getting It Wrong (2011)

Going Under (1995)

The Grave in the Desert (1987)

The Grip of Peace (1988)

The Guide (1989)

The Guy (1973)

Hain's Island (2002)

The Hands (1986)

Heading Home (1978)

Hearing Is Believing (1981)

The Height of the Scream (1976)

The Hollow in the Woods (1987)

The Horror from the Bridge (1964)

Horror House of Blood (1976)

The Horror Under Warrendown (1995)

Hybrid (1987)

I Am It And It Is I (1983)

In the Bag (1977)

Incarnate (1983)

The Inhabitant of the Lake (1964)

The Insects from Shaggai (1964)

In the Shadows (1976)

The Interloper (1973)

In the Trees (1986)

The Invocation (1982)

It Helps If You Sing (1989)

Jack's Little Friend (1975)

Jack in the Box (1983)

Just Behind You (2005)

Just Waiting (1983)

Kill Me Hideously (1997)

Laid Down (2004)

The Last Hand (1975)

Lilith's (1976)

The Limits of Fantasy (1992)

Limits of Fantasy (1992)

Litter (1974)

Little Man (1986)

Little Ones (1999)

The Little Voice (1978)

The Long Way (2008)

Looking Out (1986)

The Lost (1973)

Loveman's Comeback (1977)

Mackintosh Willy (1979)

Made in Goatswood (1973)

A Madness from the Vaults (1972)