Alone with the Horrors: The Great Short Fiction of Ramsey Campbell 1961-1991 is a collection of fantasy and horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 stories by author Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell

John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...

. Released in 1993

1993 in literature

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 in an edition of 3,834 copies, it was the author's fourth collection of stories to be published by Arkham House

Arkham House

Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...

. The contents consist of a number of Campbell's previously uncollected tales along with a selection of works drawn from each of Campbell's Arkham collections as well as the mass-market collections Dark Companions (1982), Scared Stiff (1986) and Waking Nightmares (1991).
A mass-market edition was issued by Tor Books

Tor Books

Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge imprint. The company was founded...

in 2005. It has a different introduction, and one of the stories, "The Room in the Castle," was replaced with a different one, "The Tower from Yuggoth."

Contents

Alone with the Horrors contains the following stories:

1. "So Far" (introduction)
2. "The Room in the Castle"
3. "Cold Print"
4. "The Scar"
5. "The Interloper"
6. "The Guy"
7. "The End of a Summer's Day"
8. "The Man in the Underpass"
9. "The Companion"
10. "Call First"
11. "Heading Home"
12. "In the Bag"
13. "Baby"
14. "The Chimney"
15. "Stages"
16. "The Brood"
17. "Loveman's Comeback"
18. "The Gap"
19. "The Voice of the Beach"
20. "Out of Copyright"
21. "Above the World"
22. "Mackintosh Willy"
23. "The Show Goes On"
24. "The Ferries"
25. "Midnight Hobo"
26. "The Depths"
27. "Down There"
28. "The Fit"
29. "Hearing is Believing"
30. "The Hands"
31. "Again"
32. "Just Waiting"
33. "Seeing the World"
34. "Old Clothes"
35. "Apples"
36. "The Other Side"
37. "Where the Heart Is"
38. "Boiled Alive"
39. "Another World"
40. "End of the Line"

Reprints

• London: Headline, 1994.
• USA: Tor Books (hardcover), 2004.
• USA: Tor Books (mass-market paperback), 2005.