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Ramsey Campbell Books in Order

Ramsey Campbell has written 96 books, published between 1964 and 2025. The first book is The Inhabitant Of The Lake And Less Welcome Tenants (1964) and the newest is An Echo of Children (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
96
Published
1964–2025
Confirmed
3 of 96 titles
Pages on record
18,555 in 62 of 96 books
Reading time
309–464 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 18,555 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 62 of 96 titles with a page count on record.

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Photo of Ramsey Campbell, author of the Three Births of Daoloth series

Ramsey Campbell, born 4 January 1946, is an English horror writer, editor and critic with more than sixty years of published work behind him. Campbell has written over 30 novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them award winners, and three of the novels have been adapted into films. T.E.D. Klein placed Campbell at the head of the field, writing that Campbell reigns supreme in it today. The listing holds 96 titles from The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (1964) to An Echo of Children (2025), and it includes anthology volumes Campbell edited as well as titles published under the name Carl Dreadstone.

How many Ramsey Campbell books are there?

Ramsey Campbell has 96 books, released between 1964 and 2025. 3 of them belong to the Three Births of Daoloth series.

Ramsey Campbell Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 96 Ramsey Campbell books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Demons by Daylight by Ramsey Campbell (1973)
  2. Cover of SUPERHORROR by Ramsey Campbell (1976)
  3. Cover of The Height of the Scream by Ramsey Campbell (1976)
  4. Cover of Loveman's Comeback by Ramsey Campbell (1977)
  5. Cover of To Wake the Dead/ The Parasite by Ramsey Campbell (1980)
  6. Cover of The Nameless by Ramsey Campbell (1981)
  7. Cover of Incarnate by Ramsey Campbell (1983)
  8. Cover of Night of the Claw (As: Jay Ramsay) by Ramsey Campbell (1983)
  9. Cover of The Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell, book 2 of the Fiction Without Frontiers series (1986)
  10. Cover of The Other Side by Ramsey Campbell (1986)
  11. Cover of Dark Feasts by Ramsey Campbell (1987)
  12. Cover of Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell (1989)
  13. Cover of Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell (1990)
  14. Cover of Needing Ghosts by Ramsey Campbell (1990)
  15. Cover of The Count of Eleven by Ramsey Campbell (1991)
  16. Cover of Alone With the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1993)
  17. Cover of Two Obscure Tales by Ramsey Campbell (1993)
  18. Cover of Strange Things and Stranger Places by Ramsey Campbell (1993)
  19. Cover of The Core Of Ramsey Campbell by Ramsey Campbell (1995)
  20. Cover of The One Safe Place by Ramsey Campbell (1995)
  21. Cover of Far Away & Never by Ramsey Campbell (1996)
  22. Cover of The House on Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell (1996)
  23. Cover of Ghosts and Grisly Things by Ramsey Campbell (1998)
  24. Cover of The Last Voice They Hear by Ramsey Campbell (1998)
  1. 1
    The Inhabitant Of The Lake And Less Welcome Tenants1964 · confirmed 1/4
    1964–
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  2. 2
    Demons by Daylight1973 · confirmed 1/4
    1973–
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  3. 3
    The Chimney1976 · confirmed 1/4
    1976–
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  4. 4
    The Wolfman (As: Carl Dreadstone)1976 · confirmed 1/4
    1976–
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  5. 5
    The Doll Who Ate His Mother1976 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976288
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  6. 6
    SUPERHORROR1976 · 187 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976187
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  7. 7
    The Height of the Scream1976 · 229 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1976229
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  8. 8
    Loveman's Comeback1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  9. 9
    The Bride of Frankenstein (As: Carl Dreadstone)1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  10. 10
    The Changer of Names1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  11. 11
    Dracula's Daughter (As: Carl Dreadstone)1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  12. 12
    In the Bag1977 · confirmed 1/4
    1977–
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  13. 13
    The Face That Must Die1979 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979256
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  14. 14
    Mackintosh Willy1979 · 258 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1979258
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  15. 15
    To Wake the Dead/ The Parasite1980 · 267 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1980267
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  16. 16
    Through the WallsChap #11981 · confirmed 1/4
    1981–
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  17. 17
    The Nameless1981 · 272 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1981272
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  18. 18
    Incarnate1983 · 368 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983368
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  19. 19
    Claw1983 · 367 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1983367
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  20. 20
    Night of the Claw (As: Jay Ramsay)1983 · confirmed 1/4
    1983–
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  21. 21
    Watch the Birdie1984 · confirmed 1/4
    1984–
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  22. 22
    Cold Print1985 · 217 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985217
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  23. 23
    Obsession1985 · 280 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1985280
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  24. 24
    The Hungry MoonFiction Without Frontiers #21986 · 293 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1986293
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  25. 25
    Black Wine1986 · 200 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986200
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  26. 26
    The Other Side1986 · 273 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1986273
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  27. 27
    Dark Feasts1987 · 339 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1987339
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  28. 28
    The InfluenceFiction Without Frontiers #31988 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1988288
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  29. 29
    Ancient Images1989 · 311 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1989311
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  30. 30
    Midnight Sun1990 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1990336
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Ramsey Campbell books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Fiction Without Frontiers in order

5 books
  1. 2. The Hungry Moon
  2. 3. The Influence
  3. 9. Think Yourself Lucky
  4. 13. Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach
  5. 50. The Wise Friend

Three Births of Daoloth in order

3 books
  1. 1. The Searching Dead
  2. 2. Born to the Dark
  3. 3. The Way of the Worm

Gothic Fantasy in order

2 books
  1. 35. American Gothic Short Stories
  2. 37. Urban Crime Short Stories

Chap in order

1 book
  1. 1. Through the Walls

Refuge Collection

1 book

1 title published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Black Labyrinth in order

1 book
  1. 3. The Booking

Standalone books

83 books

83 Ramsey Campbell titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Ramsey Campbell books in order?

You only need to read Ramsey Campbell books in order within the Three Births of Daoloth series, which holds 3 of the 96 Ramsey Campbell books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Ramsey Campbell

Start with The Inhabitant Of The Lake And Less Welcome Tenants (1964), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Ramsey Campbell book?

An Echo of Children (2025) is the newest Ramsey Campbell book released so far.

Is there a new Ramsey Campbell book coming?

No next Ramsey Campbell book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Ramsey Campbell has won

Wikidata records 20 awards and 42 nominations for Ramsey Campbell. The most recent 12 are listed here. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • August Derleth Award2008Wonfor The Grin of the Dark
  • British Fantasy Award for Best Collection2004Wonfor Told by the Dead
  • British Fantasy Award for Best Collection2003Wonfor Ramsey Campbell, Probably: Essays on Horror and Sundry Fantasies
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction2002Won
  • World Horror Convention Grand Master Award1999Won
  • British Fantasy Award for Best Collection1999Wonfor Ghosts and Grisly Things
  • Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement1998Won
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Collection1994Wonfor Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961–1991
  • August Derleth Award1994Wonfor The Long Lost
  • Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection1993Wonfor Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961–1991
  • August Derleth Award1991Wonfor Midnight Sun
  • World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology1991Wonfor Best New Horror

Ramsey Campbell at a glance

Still publishing
Ramsey Campbell published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Ramsey Campbell books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
18,555 pages across the 62 of 96 books with a recorded length, a median of 300 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ramsey Campbell books, 26 of 96, were published in the 2010s.

What the Ramsey Campbell books are about

50 of the 96 Ramsey Campbell books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: horror is tagged on 17 of 50. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.