Subsequently, Campbell has published a number of other collections many of his most popular stories can be found in the 1993 collection Alone with the Horrors.Ĭampbell has written many novels, both supernatural and non-supernatural. Other tales, such as 'The End of a Summer's Day' and 'Concussion', show the emergence of Campbell's highly distinctive mature style, of which S. In 1969, he had written 'Lovecraft in Retrospect', an essay for the fanzine Shadow, 'condemning work outright.' However, in his 1985 book Cold Print, which collects his Lovecraftian stories, Campbell disavowed the opinions expressed in the article, stating: 'I believe Lovecraft is one of the most important writers in the field' and 'the first book of Lovecraft's I read made me into a writer.'Demons by Daylight includes 'The Franklyn Paragraphs', which uses Lovecraft's documentary narrative technique without slipping into parody of his writing style. With the collection Demons by Daylight (1973), Campbell set out to be as unlike Lovecraft as possible. as Secret Story) both exemplifies and satirizes Liverpudlian speech, characters, humor, and culture. In particular, his 2006 novel Secret Stories (published in the U.S. Brichester was deeply influenced by Campbell's native Liverpool, and much of his later work is set in the real locales of Liverpool and Merseyside. At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the state of Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester, near the River Severn, creating his own Severn Valley milieu for Lovecraftian horrors. His first collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, is a volume of Cthulhu Mythos stories published by Arkham House in 1964. His early work was greatly influenced by the work of H.

Although both parents lived in the same house, Campbell states, 'I didn't see my father face to face for nearly twenty years, and that was when he was dying.' Campbell's childhood and adolescence were marked by the rift between his parents and his mother's developing schizophrenia, an experience he has discussed in detail in the introduction and afterword to the restored text of The Face That Must Die.

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