Is Ramsey Campbell truly Britain's Stephen King?

His novels:

>The Doll Who Ate His Mother (1976; revised text, 1985)
>The Face That Must Die (expurgated version 1979; restored text: 1983)
>The Parasite (1980; published in the US with a different ending as To Wake the Dead)
>The Nameless (1981; filmed in 1999 as The Nameless)
>The Claw (1983; also known as Night of the Claw; written as Jay Ramsay)
>Incarnate (1983)
>Obsession (1985)
>The Hungry Moon (1986)
>The Influence (1988)
>Ancient Images (1989)
>Midnight Sun (1990)
>The Count of Eleven (1991)
>The Long Lost (1993)
>The One Safe Place (1995)
>The House on Nazareth Hill (1996; also known as Nazareth Hill)
>The Last Voice They Hear (1998)
>Silent Children (2000)
>Pact of the Fathers (2001)
>The Darkest Part of the Woods (2003)
>The Overnight (2004)
>Secret Stories (2005; abridged US edition, Secret Story, 2006)
>The Grin of the Dark (2007)
>Thieving Fear (2008)
>Creatures of the Pool (2009)
>The Seven Days of Cain (2010)
>Ghosts Know (2011)
>The Kind Folk (2012)
>Think Yourself Lucky (2014)[50]
>Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach (2015)
>The Searching Dead (2016) (Book One of The Three Births of Daoloth)
>Born to the Dark (2017) (Book Two of The Three Births of Daoloth)
>The Way of the Worm (2018) (Book Three of The Three Births of Daoloth)
>The Wise Friend (2020)
>Somebody's Voice (2021)
>Fellstones (2022)
>The Lonely Lands (2023)
>The Incubations (2024)
>An Echo of Children (2025)

Movie novelizations:

>The Bride of Frankenstein (1977; of the 1935 film, written as Carl Dreadstone)
>Dracula's Daughter (1977; of the 1936 film, written as Carl Dreadstone)
>The Wolf Man (1977; of the 1941 film, written as Carl Dreadstone)
>Solomon Kane (2010; of the 2009 film)

Short story collections:

>The Inhabitant of The Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants (1964, definitive edition 2011)
>Demons by Daylight (1973)
>The Height of the Scream (1976)
>Dark Companions (1982)
>Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death (1987, expanded edition 2002)
>Waking Nightmares (1991)
>Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961–1991 (1993)
>Strange Things and Stranger Places (1993)
>Far Away & Never (1996)
>Ghosts and Grisly Things (1998)
>Told by the Dead (2003)
>Inconsequential Tales (2008)
>Just Behind You (2009)
>Holes for Faces (2013)
>Visions from Brichester (2015)
>By the Light of My Skull (2018)
>The Village Killings & Other Novellas (2021)
>Fearful Implications (2023)

Weirdly enough he’s had three of his books made of his films, but all were made in Spain.

>The Nameless (1999, later adopted into a Netflix series in 2025 as Los sin nombre)
>Second Name (2002, based on Pact of the Fathers)
>The Influence (2019)

Also a short film and a tv episode:
>Joyride (1996, short film)
>The Seductress (2000, episode 19, Season 2 of The Hunger)

>>24571019 (OP)
Pretty much
I like his short stories, can't get into the novels

>>24571019 (OP)
I rate him but I'm biased. I have a publication alongside him in an anthology.

>>24571856
Look, an actual published author on /lit/

How hard is it to get a horror story published?

So far of his works, I've read:

-The Doll Who Ate His Mother (Clunky first novel, which he admits in the afterword of my edition)
-The Nameless (Also kind of clunky again, but better then The Doll Who...)
-Ancient Images (Best novel of his I've read so far, sad it hasn't been made into a film yet)
-The Incubations (Kind of feels like a stretched short story but I still liked it, it's darkly comedic)

Currently reading The Darkest Part of the Woods. Definitely a slow burn of a folk horror novel, but I'm almost done with it and I'm quite liking where it's going.

I've also read his collections Cold Print and Alone with the Horrors. Pretty good, although the first half of Cold Print were some of his earliest short stories, and you can see he has come along way.

>>24572794
Also, I've seen The Nameless movie, and honestly, I think it was better then the book. It's very different though. You could get away with watching the movie first before reading the book.