ramsey campbell the darkest part of the woods

I’m sure there’s many highs, as well as lows, that you’ve experienced in your writing career. You’ve an extensive bibliography, your first novel published in 1973, but as I understand it, you were writing long before that. Pretty well, thanks, and productive – I’m just working on a short story and will do a couple more before reading through the first draft of my next novel in preparation for a rewrite.

I’m honoured to have you as one of the first author interviews ever on Red Lace Reviews.

Hello, Ramsey! First of all, I’d like to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do this interview. Lennox Price discovered a hallucinogenic moss that quickly became the focus of a cult-and though the moss and the trees on which it grew are long gone, it seems as if the whole forest can now affect the minds of visitors.Īfter Lennox is killed trying to return to his beloved wood, his widow seems to see and hear him in the trees-or is it a dark version of the Green Man that caresses her with leafy hands? Lennox's grandson heeds a call to lie in his lover's arms in the very heart of the forest-and cannot help but wonder what the fruit of that love will be.Īnd Heather, Lennox's daughter, who turned her back on her father's mysteries and sought sanctuary in the world of facts and history? Goodmanswood summons her as well.

In The Darkest Part of the Woods, Campbell introduces readers to the Price family, whose lives have for decades been snarled with the fate of the ancient forest of Goodmanswood. Hailed as one of the most literate and literary writers of our time, in genre and out, Campbell has been acclaimed as a 'master of dark fantasy' by Clive Barker, one of today's 'finest writers of supernatural horror and psychological suspense' by the Charleston Post & Courier, the 'master of a skewed and exquisitely terrifying style' by Library Journal, 'one of the world's foremost horror writers' by the San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle, and a 'master of mood' by Publishers Weekly. Ramsey Campbell is the world's most honored living horror writer, with more than twenty World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and other awards to his credit.

Ramsey campbell the darkest part of the woods