14 Quotes by Ramsey Campbell

Perhaps the woman was waiting beneath the lamps for cats to drop from the trees, like fruit.

Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with admirable honesty and rigorousness and conveys it in prose as powerfully evocative as any writer in the field. I’d say he might just be a genius.

One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself.

He hurried back. Walls seemed to shift and advance. Right here, it must be. Wasn’t this passage too short? No, it wasn’t a wall that blocked his way, only fog. The fog retreated before him – then at once yielded up a wall. Staggering crimson letters caught in the web of graffiti spelled KILLER.

I don’t care much for this homogenised religion, and I told him so. This notion that you mustn’t think your way to faith is obviously not far from the intolerance that leads to burning books.