The Influence (Fiction Without Frontiers) - Softcover

Campbell, Ramsey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787583732 ISBN 13: 9781787583733

Publisher: FLAME TREE PRESS, 2019

Synopsis

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"This is a chilling work and the fullest treatment of one of Campbell's recurring themes - the psychic violence family members wreak upon one another." Publishers Weekly

Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death can t break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. She s buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowan s hair, and soon afterwards Rowan is befriended by a mysterious uncannily intelligent girl of her own age. Only her aunt Hermione suspects how sinister this is, but will retrieving the locket save her niece? By the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her. if the child who takes her place in the family isn t Rowan, Rowan may be somewhere else not quite like our world...

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Review

He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget you re just reading a story --Publishers Weekly

There are a few writers who are special. They make the world in their books; or rather, they open a window or a door or a magic casement, and they show you the world in which they live. Ramsey Campbell, for example, writes stories that, read in quantity, will re-form your world into a grey and ominous place in which strange shapes flicker at the corner of your eyes, and a patch of smoke or a blown plastic shopping bag takes on some kind of ghastly significance. --Neil Gaiman

An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that --Guillermo del Toro

About the Author

Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as Britain s most respected living horror writer . He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know, The Kind Folk, Think Yourself Lucky and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach. Needing Ghosts, The Last Revelation of Gla aki, The Pretence and The Booking are novellas. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You and Holes for Faces, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal are what they sound like. 

His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain, where a film of The Influence is in production. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.

AWARDS:

The Chimney , World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978

In The Bag , British Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978

The Parasite, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1980

Mackintosh Willy , World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1980

Incarnate, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1985

The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988

The Influence, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1989 and Premios Gigamesh, 1994 (for Spanish translation, Ultratumba)

Ancient Images, Children of the Night Award for Best Novel, 1989

Midnight Sun, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1991

Best New Horror (co-edited with Stephen Jones), British Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology or Collection, 1991

Alone With The Horrors, Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Best Collection, 1994 and World Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1994

The Long Lost, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1994

Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Award for Literature, 1994

Premio alla Carriera a Ramsey Campbell (Prize for the Career of Ramsey Campbell), Fantafestival, Rome, 1995

The House On Nazareth Hill, Best Novel, International Horror Guild, 1998

Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999

Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999

Ghosts And Grisly Things, British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1999

Ramsey Campbell, Probably, Best Non-Fiction, International Horror Guild, 2002 and Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, 2002 and British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 2002

Told By The Dead, British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 2003

Howie Award of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement, 2006

Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, 2007

The Grin Of The Dark, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 2008

Honorary Fellowship of John Moores University, Liverpool, for outstanding services to literature, 2015

Letters To Arkham, British Fantasy Award, Best Non-Fiction, 2015

Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015

The Searching Dead, Children of the Night Award for Best Novel, 2016

About this edition

• Publisher: FLAME TREE PRESS
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1787583732
• ISBN 13: 9781787583733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240