“Above the World” (1979) – A man goes to visit the Swan Hotel, a place where he and his former wife had originally honeymooned many years ago and happens to be the same place where she and her new husband died from exposure climbing the traitorous peak know as “The Bishop of Barf”.
Everyone becomes unnerved when the lights along their path begin going out, and they start hearing voices they assume must be carolers coming from the location of an old, transplanted graveyard.Ģ. They reluctantly feel obligated to invite him back to their house to continue their celebrations. “The Christmas Present” (1969) – A peculiar college student attaches himself to some friends who are celebrating on Christmas Eve and offers them a present that he insists can’t be opened until midnight. If you want to peruse all the entries for Ramsey here at Horror Delve, you can find the extensive list here. You can find previous posts about Ramsey’s short fiction here: They are listed by order of their publication. What follows are a bunch of his stories I’ve read since the last post. This being the case, I’ve run out of unique titles for the articles where I recount a bunch of his short stories, so from here on I’ll just be numbering them unless its a collection, in which case I’ll use its book title. I love reading anything by Ramsey Campbell – be it in long form or short – as a result his work gets covered here a lot.
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