Darker Companions

This came out a little while ago from PS Publishing but I've only just received my author copy. It's a fine-looking book, and published to celebrate 50 years of Ramsey Campbell's fiction being published. And here's to another few decades of the same!

Ramsey's work has always been a huge inspiration to me, and everything I write carries his influence. he's my favourite writer. His work has always shaded how I see the world.

My story "There, There" combines my personal experiences of house-sharing in London with the influence of Ramsey's short tales upon my own work. I didn't try to ape his prose or literary ticks - I'm not capable of doing so without the result being weak and hollow. Instead, I just sat down and thought about the man's work, how it influences my own writing, and tried to tell my own story but with Ramsey Campbell in mind.

I hope you enjoy the result.

Here's the table of contents:

• Introduction: Hymns from the Church in High Street by Scott David Aniolowski 
• Holoow by Michael Wehunt 
• The Long Fade into Evening by Steve Rasnic Tem 
• Asking Price by S.P. Miskowski 
• Author! Author?  by John Llewellyn Probert 
• Meriwether by Michael Griffin 
• The Entertainment Arrives by Alison Littlewood 
• Premeditation by Marc Laidlaw 
• A Perfect Replica by Damien Angelica Walters 
• There, There by Gary McMahon 
• We Pass from View by Matthew M. Bartlett 
• Meeting the Master by Gary Fry 
• Saints in Gold by Kristi DeMeester 
• This Last Night in Sodom by Cody Goodfellow 
• The Whither by Kaaron Warren 
• Uncanny Valley by Jeffrey Thomas 
• The Dublin Horror by Lynda E. Rucker 
• The Sixth Floor by Thana Niveau 
• The Carcass of the Lion by Christopher Slatsky 
• The Granfalloon by Orrin Grey 
• Little Black Lamb by Adam L G Nevill