This best-of-the-best of exceptional horror and dark fantasy fiction stories is the must-have for horror buffs. The showcase includes the best of the annual anthologies, including international selections, an impressively researched necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated fan and aspiring writer of true horror.

Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most honored author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell's writing, including several award-winners.

Campbell crowns the book with a length preface-revised for this edition-which traces his early publication history, discusses his youthful correspondence with August Derleth, and illuminates the influence of H.P. Lovecraft on his work.
Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer's development of his craft.

Ramsey Campbell has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Publishers Weekly calls Campbell 'a horror writer's horror writer,' adding, 'His control of mood and atmosphere is unsurpassed.' The Cleveland Plain Dealer says his horror fiction is 'of consistently high quality,' and The Washington Post praises Campbell for continuing 'to break new ground, advancing the style and thematic content of horror fiction far beyond the works of his contemporaries.'

The original publication of Scared Stiff almost created the sub-genre of erotic horror. Never had sex and death been so mesmerizingly entwined. Clive Barker, in his Introduction, says, 'One of the delightfully unsettling things about these tales is the way Ramsey's brooding, utterly unique vision renders an act so familiar to us all so fretful, so strange, so chilling. Sex . . . is the perfect stuff for the horror writer, and there can be few artists working in the genre as capable of analyzing and dramatizing [this] as Campbell.'

For this edition, Campbell has added three new stories which have never before appeared in book form.