Ginger Nuts of Horror was honoured to asked to conduct a pair of video interviews with two legends of the horror genre at last years Fantasy Con by the good folks at PS Publishing.
When you think of horror, and especially horror fiction in the UK, if the names Ramsey Campbell and Stephen Volk don't spring to mind, then there is something wrong with your horror reading habits. With a pair of long and distinguished careers spanning decades worth of spine chilling tales Campbell and Volk have been an inspiration and influence for so many horror writers who have followed in their footsteps. Ramsey Campbell is described by the Oxford Companion to English Literature as ‘Britain’s most respected living horror writer’. His many award-winning novels include The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, and more recently The Way of The Worm (PS Publishing).
Ginger Nuts of Horror's Jonathan Thornton, jumped at the chance to interview one of his literary heroes...
"Given my love of Ramsey Campbell's work, perhaps it's not surprising I wound up living in Liverpool. Reading his novel Obsession and his short story collection Cold Print - both published in the year I was born - changed what horror meant to me. Here were the Lovecraftian terrors that fascinated me, but in the recognisable context of northern England, the shifting layers of reality and treacherous holes in the world hiding in the streets of Liverpool and its environs. His writing resonates on a very personal level, not just because of his excellent use of setting, but for the way his well-drawn characters are forced to confront their failings. Ramsey's work brought horror home for me, brought the Weird to my doorstep. For that I will always be grateful." Grab yourself a coffee, sit back and relax and please enjoy this fascinating interview with one of the true legends of the horror genre. click here to watch our interview with Stephen VolkTHE WAY OF THE WORM
More than thirty years have passed since the events of Born to the Dark. Christian Noble is almost a century old, but his and his family s influence over the world is stronger than ever. The latest version of their occult church counts Dominic Sheldrake s son and the young man s wife among its members, and their little daughter too. Dominic will do anything he can to break its influence over them, and his old friends Jim and Bobby come to his aid. None of them realise what they will be up against the Nobles transformed into the monstrousness they have invoked, and the inhuman future they may have made inevitable . . .
The Way of the Worm is the final volume of Ramsey Campbell s Brichester Mythos trilogy, in which he returns to his original themes and develops them in his mature style. The first volume, The Searching Dead, received the Children of the Night Award from the Dracula Society for the best original Gothic fiction of the year. 
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