Ramsey Campbell & Lisa Tuttle: The Enduring Dread
About the event
Join writers Georgina Bruce and Laura Mauro as they explore the intersection of horror and weird, with potential detours into magical realism and the creation of modern mythologies.Between them, Ramsey Campbell and Lisa Tuttle have written over 100 books, and have won every award going. Join two masters of the suspense as they discuss what it takes to keep their work relevant (and scary) in our ever-changing world.
With a Brave New Words reading from Katalina Watt
Chaired by Jim MacLeod of Gingernuts of Horror
About the speakers
Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and now lives in Wallasey. 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. PS Publishing have brought out Phantasmagorical Stories in two volumes, a sixty-year retrospective of his short stories. His latest novel is The Wise Friend from Flame Tree Press.
Lisa Tuttle is an award-winning author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Her first novel, written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin, Windhaven, has been in print since 1981 and was adopted by her as a graphic novel. Her most recent novels are part of a detective series with supernatural elements, set in 1890s England: The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief and The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross. Born and raised in Texas, she has lived in Scotland since 1990.
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