His short fiction has been collected in such volumes as Demons by Daylight, The Height of the Scream, Dark Companions, Scared Stiff, Waking Nightmares, Cold Print, Alone with the Horrors, Ghosts and Grisly Things, Told by the Dead, and Just Behind You.
His first book, a collection of stories entitled The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, was published by August Derleth's legendary Arkham House imprint in 1964, since when his novels have included The Doll Who Ate His Mother, The Face That Must Die, The Nameless, Incarnate, The Hungry Moon, Ancient Images, The Count of Eleven, The Long Lost, Pact of the Fathers, The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Grin of the Dark, Thieving Fear, Creatures of the Pool, The Seven Days of Cain and the movie tie-in Solomon Kane. Lovecraft and August Derleth are mentioned as authors whose books are sold in Y'golonac's bookstore.Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool, where he still lives with his wife Jenny. The character of Roland Franklyn from " The Franklyn Paragraphs" is mentioned, although "Cold Print" was written four years earlier.Ultimate Press, its publisher, is also mentioned in Campbell's story " Potential" the press's forthcoming book by Johannes Henricus Pott is described in Campbell's " The Mine on Yuggoth" as "the horrible untitled Johannes Henricus Pott book." Sam Strutt reads from The Revelations of Glaaki, another Campbell contribution.The story makes reference to several Mythos entities, including Cthulhu and Shub-Niggurath, and Campbell's creations Glaaki, Eihort, Byatis and Daoloth.The story is the first appearance of the Great Old One Y'golonac, described as a towering headless figure with wet red mouths on the palms of its hands.The Severn Valley village of Goatswood is also referred to. "Cold Print" is set in Brichester, part of the fictional Severn Valley created by Campbell as a setting for many of his Mythos stories.It's also appeared in his Dark Feasts: The World of Ramsey Campbell (Robinson, 1987), Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961–1991 (Arkham House, 1993), and Visions from Brichester (PS Publishing, 2015). Written in 1969, "Cold Print" was included in the Ramsey Campbell collection of the same name in 1985 by Scream/Press. Y'golonac, a Great Old One who has taken on the form of a bookseller he consumed.The Man, a terrified former bookbuyer who has read too much.Sam Strutt, a schoolteacher with a penchant for sado-masochistic literature.There he meets an evil entity searching for someone to be his next High Priest. A man with a very specific taste in reading is lured to an obscure bookstore on the promise of finding a new source to feed his obsession.
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