Think Yourself Lucky

"Campbell on vintage form." - Crime TimeDavid Botham just wants a quiet ordinary life—his job at the travel agency, his relationship with his girlfriend Stephanie. The online blog that uses a title he once thought up has nothing to do with him. He has no idea who is writing it or where they get their information about a series of violent deaths in Liverpool. If they’re murders, how can the killer go unseen even by security cameras? Perhaps David won’t know until they come too close to him—until he can’t ignore the figure from his past that is catching up with him…FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

"There is one thing utterly consistent about the writer – and that is his skill at unsettling the reader on a variety of levels, from a queasy minor destabilisations to jolting revelations; and these abilities are fully exercised in the new book.", “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”, “Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today”, “Britain’s leading horror writer... His novels have been getting better and better”, “One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers”

Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Among his novels are The Face That Must Die, Incarnate, Midnight Sun, The Count of Eleven, Silent Children, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight, Secret Story, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain, Ghosts Know, The Kind Folk, Think Yourself Lucky and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach. Needing Ghosts, The Last Revelation of Gla’aki, The Pretence and The Booking are novellas. His collections include Waking Nightmares, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, Just Behind You and Holes for Faces, and his non-fiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably. Limericks of the Alarming and Phantasmal are what they sound like. His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain, where a film of The Influence is in production. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.AWARDS:“The Chimney”, World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978“In The Bag”, British Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1978The Parasite, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1980“Mackintosh Willy”, World Fantasy Award, Best Short Story, 1980IIncarnate, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1985The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988The Influence, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1989 and Premios Gigamesh, 1994 (for Spanish translation, Ultratumba)Ancient Images, Children of the Night Award for Best Novel, 1989Midnight Sun, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1991Best New Horror (co-edited with Stephen Jones), British Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award, Best Anthology or Collection, 1991Alone With The Horrors, Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Best Collection, 1994 and World Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1994The Long Lost, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1994Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Award for Literature, 1994Premio alla Carriera a Ramsey Campbell (Prize for the Career of Ramsey Campbell), Fantafestival, Rome, 1995The House On Nazareth Hill, Best Novel, International Horror Guild, 1998Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999Ghosts And Grisly Things, British Fantasy Award, Best Collection, 1999Ramsey Campbell, Probably, Best Non-Fiction, International Horror Guild, 2002 and Stoker Award of the Horror Writers of America, Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, 2002