Новинки Рэмси Кэмпбелла

Книжный должен быть уютным и привлекательным, по крайней мере, таким его хочет видеть новый директор магазина «Тексты», американец, недавно переехавший в Великобританию. Но это оказывается довольно трудно, так как в его магазине, одном из целой сети, творится что-то неладное. Здание постоянно скрывает густой туман. Каждый раз, когда работники приходят утром, многие книги лежат на полу, некоторые изорваны или пропитаны какой-то влагой. Компьютеры сбоят, а по ночам, даже отключенные, мерцают странным серым светом. Заказы исчезают. На купленных видеокассетах вместо фильмов оказываются тени, изображающие древние битвы и жертвоприношения. Когда…

Бен Стерлинг наследует дом своих предков и решает переехать туда с семьей, не зная о странных историях, которые ходят в местном городке о лесе, что раскинулся вокруг древней дубовой рощи. В ней когда-то давно нашли тело прапрадеда Бена, который, прежде чем осесть в Англии, изучал ледяные просторы далекого Севера, где, как говорят, шаманы практиковали древние ритуалы, чтобы полуночное солнце светило над снежной пустыней. Теперь, спустя три поколения, Бен пробуждает невероятную силу и вскоре вся местность вокруг оказывается во власти льда и метели. А тех, кто приближается к лесу, ждет самая незавидная судьба.

Соломон Кейн встречает на своем пути англичанина
Джона Тихого. Вместе они направляются к замку барона фон Сталера, который ведет себя несколько неадекватно. Будто в него вселился дьявол...

Бонусный рассказ из цикла произведений о Соломоне Кейне, начатый Робертом Говардом, и законченный Рэмси Кэмпбеллом.

Использована музыка «Marching towards the unknown» от Arcana Liturgia.

Соломон Кейн встречает на своем пути англичанина Джона Тихого. Вместе они направляются к замку барона фон Сталера, который ведет себя несколько неадекватно. Будто в него вселился дьявол…

Ben Sterling has a very strange inheritance...

Though now a happy family man, and a successful writer of children s stories, as a child Ben was tragically orphaned by a mysterious car crash. Raised by a loving aunt who refused to discuss his father s eccentric family, he nevertheless develops a strange fascination with the lonely Yorkshire house they inherited.

On his aunt's death, Ben unexpectedly acquires this ancestral home, and the family decide to move into it...ignorant of the strange stories concerning those who stray too close to the woods at night.

Ben himself is increasingly drawn to nearby Sterling Forest extensive pinewoods planted by his family around the ancient oak grove where his great-grandfather was found dead so many years before. Edward Sterling had been exploring the icy wastes of the far north, where shamans were said to practise ancient rituals to keep the midnight sun shining over their desolate land. Found naked and snowblind in this distant wilderness, he had been returned to his wife...but died soon afterwards in bizarre circumstances.

Now, three generations later, Ben unwittingly sets loose an awesome power, and soon the entire countryside falls into the grip of ice and blizzards. But what must be the sacrifice that can transform eternal winter back into spring?

A truly disturbing novel, Midnight Sun underlines Ramsey Campbell s talent for creating a modern supernatural tale that maintains the best spine-tingling standards of classic horror.

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.

Some words are born in shadows.

Some tales told only in whispers.

Under the paper thin veneer of our sanity is a world that exists. Hidden just beyond in plain sight, waiting to consume you should you dare stray from the street-lit paths that sedate our fears.

For centuries the Black Room has stored stories of these encounters, suppressing the knowledge of the rarely seen. Protecting the civilised world from its own dark realities.

The door to the Black Room has once again swung open to unleash twenty four masterful tales of the macabre from the twisted minds of a new breed of horror author.

The Black Room holds many secrets.

Dare you enter… one final time?

Саймон – бывший кинокритик, человек без работы, перспектив и профессии, так как журнал, где он был главным редактором, признали виновным в клевете. Когда Саймон получает предложение от университета написать книгу о забытом актере эпохи немого кино, он хватается за последнюю возможность спасти свою карьеру. Тем более материал интересный: Табби Теккерей – клоун, на чьих представлениях по слухам люди буквально умирали от смеха. Комик, чьи фильмы, которые некогда ставили вровень с творениями Чарли Чаплина и Бастера Китона, исчезли практически без следа, как будто их специально постарались уничтожить. Саймон начинает по крупицам собирать информацию в закрытых архивах, на странных цирковых представлениях и даже на порностудии, но чем дальше продвигается в исследовании, тем больше его жизнь превращается в жуткий кошмар, из которого словно нет выхода... Ведь Табби забыли не просто так, а его наследие связано с чем-то, что гораздо древнее кинематографа, чем-то невероятно опасным и безумным.

Саймон – бывший кинокритик, человек без работы, перспектив и профессии, так как журнал, где он был главным редактором, признали виновным в клевете. Когда Саймон получает предложение от университета написать книгу о забытом актере эпохи немого кино, он хватается за последнюю возможность спасти свою карьеру. Тем более материал интересный: Табби Теккерей – клоун, на чьих представлениях по слухам люди буквально умирали от смеха. Комик, чьи фильмы, которые некогда ставили вровень с творениями Чарли Чаплина и Бастера Китона, исчезли практически без следа, как будто их специально постарались уничтожить. Саймон начинает по крупицам собирать…

A bookstore can be a wonderful, welcoming place of both commerce and curiosity. That's the goal for Woody, an American recently transferred to England to run a branch of Texts. He wants a clean, orderly store and lots of sales to show his bosses when they arrive from the States for a pre-Christmas inspection. Not easy given the shop's location in a foggy strip mall. And things keep going wrong. No matter how often the shelves are put in order before the doors are locked at night, when the staff returns in the morning, books are lying all over the floor, many damp and damaged beyond repair. The store's computers keep acting up-errors appear in brochures and ads and orders disappear completely. And even when the machines are turned off, they seem to glow with a spectral gray light.

The hit-and-run death of an employee in the store's parking lot marks a turning point. One employee accuses another of making sexual advances and they come to blows. Between one sentence and the next, one loses his ability to read. The security monitors display half-seen things crawling between the stacks that vanish before anyone can find them. Desperate, Woody musters his staff for an overnight inventory. When the last customers reluctantly depart, leaving almost-visible trails of slime shining behind them, the doors are locked, sealing Woody and the others inside for a final orgy of shelving. The damp, grey, silent things that have been lurking in the basement and hiding in the fog may move slowly, but they are inexorable.

This bookstore is no haven. It is the doorway to a hell unlike any other.

Dominic Sheldrake has never forgotten his childhood in fifties Liverpool or the talk an old boy of his grammar school gave about the First World War. When his history teacher took the class on a field trip to France it promised to be an adventure, not the first of a series of glimpses of what lay in wait for the world. Soon Dominic would learn that a neighbour was involved in practices far older and darker than spiritualism, and stumble on a secret journal that hinted at the occult nature of the universe. How could he and his friends Roberta and Jim stop what was growing under a church in the midst of the results of the blitz? Dominic used to write tales of their exploits, but what they face now could reduce any adult to less than a child...

Ramsey Campbell recently returned to the Brichester Mythos for his novella The Last Revelation of Gla’aki. His new trilogy The Three Births of Daoloth further develops the cosmic horrors he invented in his first published book, The Inhabitant of the Lake. The Searching Dead is the first volume, to be followed by Born to the Dark.

Муж и жена приобрели дом. Странный дом. Герою все время кажется, что по дому бродят призраки кошек, царапают обои, шипят... Но правда ли все это, или ему это только кажется, и он сходит с ума?

Это сооружение построил некий миллионер. Он собирался использовать его как убежище на случай ядерной войны, поэтому на складах первых этажей он размещал съестные и прочие припасы. Вскоре после завершения строительства его признали невменяемым и упрятали в психушку. Теперь верхние этажи здания используются как временные офисы, а склады очищены и заброшены. Однако при расчистке обнаружилось, что большая часть припасов съедена. Казалось бы, ничего особенного. Но почему тогда уборщицы всегда уходят так рано, и даже ночной сторож пренебрегает своими обязанностями, из подвала слышатся странные звуки, а припозднившимся работникам офисов порой…

Charlotte Nolan and her cousins may not have ended up in the jobs they hoped to have when they were teenagers, but they've made their way in life. Charlotte works for a London publisher, Ellen cares for the elderly, Hugh has left teaching to work in a supermarket while his brother Rory is a controversial artist. Then more than their jobs begin to go wrong as something reaches out of the past for them. What has it to do with the summer night they spent on Thursaston Common? If the dreams they had that night are catching up with them, how is the Victorian occultist Arthur Pendemon involved? Before the nightmare ends more than one of them will have to enter what remains of Pendemon's house and confront what still lives there in the dark.

Два авторских сборника рассказов, роман, а также несколько рассказов из других сборников.
Сборник «Демоны белого дня» переведен по изданию 1973 года. В издании 1979 и последующих годов состав и порядок произведений были частично изменены.
Раздел «Мрачные спутники», несмотря на название, не соответствует одноименному сборнику. В него вошли лишь три рассказа из указанной книги и еще один — из другой. Кроме того, по неизвестным причинам рассказ «Марионетки», также входящий в сборник, вынесен в начало книги, вне разделов.
Рассказы, в оглавлении обозначенные как «Человек, вмешивающийся не в свои дела» и «Старые свирели», в самом тексте имеют другие названия

One of the most respected living horror writers in the world, Campbell has more awards for his horror tales than any other author, and "is likely to be remembered as the leading horror writer of our generation," according to S.T. Joshi. One of the heirs apparent to early-twentieth-century American author H. P. Lovecraft, Campbell's horror stories are often set in contemporary Merseyside, England, his own hometown, and involve quite ordinary characters. His unsettling, dreamlike prose, however, transforms his work into very effective horror fiction.

The most famous Victorian rarity may be a stamp the Penny Black but it is several times more common than the rarest Victorian book. It is possible that no copy of The Revelation of Gla aki still exists anywhere in the world. The most evil book, or a lost contribution to the literature of occultism? Like the contents of the Library of Alexandria, it may have passed into legend... So wrote Leonard Fairman, the Brichester University archivist, but he couldn t have dreamed of the response. His essay has hardly appeared online before he s offered a copy of the book. All he has to do is stay overnight in the Northern coastal town of Gulshaw at least, that s his plan. What else is there to keep him in the town, even if its slogan is So Much More to See? Why are there so many people on the beach at night, and in the sea? Why does he have to use such a circuitous route to find his prize, and why do the people he encounters seem to share a secret? What keeps giving him dreams of a stone cocoon voyaging through space and falling to earth? Each of the volumes he reads brings him closer to a revelation, but perhaps it will be on him before he sees it coming... Ramsey Campbell first saw print more than fifty years ago, with tales that reflected his love of H. P. Lovecraft s work. His first book The Inhabitant of The Lake was rooted in Lovecraft, and the definitive edition is published by PS Publishing. Now Campbell returns to his own Lovecraftian territory and reshapes it in terms of Lovecraft s vision in this new novella.

Appearing in cultures the world over and frequently corresponding with Jungian archetypes, horror images and narratives have roots in various mythical and spiritual belief systems. By depicting the horrific consequences of indulging in unproductive, tabooed behavior, such fiction is socially instructive; a mechanism for perpetuating the laws and values of the collective. Thus the young woman who becomes a bit too familiar with the men folk finds herself deceived by a demon in disguise. The man who attempts to play God deludes himself, his efforts resulting in abomination and ruin. Those who push too far beyond the boundary of that which is known come to pay a terrible price. If anything is absolutely certain about works of horror fiction, it’s that they touch us in a very personal way, and what we take away from that experience—whether positive or negative—is very much our own.

Few authors can claim to have marked a genre so thoroughly and personally that their words have leaked into every aspect of modern pop culture. Clive

Barker is such an author, and the Books of Blood marked his debut - his coming out to the world - in brilliant, unforgettable fashion. Crossroad Press is

proud to present Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" in digital for the first time.

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the

everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive

Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.

Never one to shy away from the unimaginable or the unspeakable, Clive Barker breathes life into our deepest, darkest nightmares, creating visions that are

at once terrifying, tender, and witty. The Books of Blood confirm what horror fans everywhere have known for a long time: We will be hearing from Clive

Barker for many years to come.

This first volume contains the short stories : "The Book of Blood," "The Midnight Meat Train," "The Yattering and Jack," "Sex, Death, and Starshine," and

"In the Hills, the Cities," as well as the original introduction to volumes one, two, and three by Ramsey Campbell, and a new introduction by author David

Niall Wilson.