The title story, which is this month’s tale for discussion, I would say falls into the latter category. I love the whole book, and regard all the traditional and perhaps not-so-traditional Lovecraftian tales with tremendous fondness. I ended up reading most of the collection sitting next to a mosquito-infested swamp in Sardinia, an environment which lent an even-more otherworldly atmosphere to the already other-worldly proceedings.

OK well it's late on Sunday night so I hope Griff doesn't mind if I leap in but if I don't do it now I'll never get round to it:Ĭold Print was the first of Ramsey’s books that I bought, to take on an Inter-Railing trip around Europe when I was 18.

I'm going to re-read 'Cold Print' tonight and will post my own impressions sometime in the next day or so. I shall now leave the floor open for Griff to start our discussion if and when he so chooses. I've taken the liberty of opening up the 'Cold Print' thread. Ramsey Campbell Reading Group: May tale - 'Cold Print' A film reviewer for BBC Radio Merseyside since 1969, he is also President of both the British Fantasy Society and the Society of Fantastic Films.RAMSEY CAMPBELL: Ramsey Campbell Reading Group: May tale - 'Cold Print' Lovecraft Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement, and the International Horror Guild's Living Legend Award. Ramsey Campbell has won multiple World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards and Bram Stoker Awards, and is a recipient of the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the Howie Award of the H.P. Forthcoming is another novel, The Black Pilgrimage. PS Publishing issued the novel Ghosts Know, and the definitive edition of Inhabitant of the Lake, which included all the first drafts of the stories. He has also edited a number of anthologies, including New Terrors, New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Fine Frights: Stories That Scared Me, Uncanny Banquet, Meddling with Ghosts, and Gathering the Bones: Original Stories from the World's Masters of Horror (with Dennis Etchison and Jack Dann). His short fiction has been collected in such volumes as Demons by Daylight, The Height of the Scream, Dark Companions, Scared Stiff, Waking Nightmares, Cold Print, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, and Just Behind You. His first book, a collection of stories entitled The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, was published by August Derleth's legendary Arkham House imprint in 1964, since when his novels have included The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The Face That Must Die, The Nameless, Incarnate, The Hungry Moon, Ancient Images, The Count of Eleven, The Long Lost, Pact of the Fathers, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain and the movie tie-in Solomon Kane. Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool, where he still lives with his wife Jenny.

Cold print by ramsey campbell