Ramsey Campbell Concocts the Creepies

Categories: Horror & Supernatural , Fiction

British author Ramsey Campbell has mastered the knack of establishing an unsettling mood that seeps right into everyday life around you. His seemingly normal people and places eventually reveal themselves to be way outside of the ordinary, with tree people peeking over the back fence, ancient evil oozing up out of the stacks in a bookshop, and co-eds' fathers indulging their daughters to death.

Campbell's latest book, The Overnight (2005), centers on a big brand-new chain bookstore in suburban England that is a repository of ancient evil. The story starts out gritty and chilly, and the tone is unrelentingly dark, leading to a satisfyingly inevitable conclusion. 

It just might make you think twice about going to the mall at night, alone, in the dark...