The Influence has an idea that the last dream you have (since dreams tend to 'last' a great deal longer than they actually do) for you would be eternity. In various stories I've been trying to construct some notion of the afterlife that made sense to me as being at the very most agnostic, and pretty well against the sort of religion I was brought up with. You could argue that when you take God away, that's where the chaos starts - and also the sense that there's still some sort of supernatural force that just doesn't care very much, if it's not positively inimical. “One reason I started writing the way I did may have been the death throes of the religion I was brought up with - extremely repressive Christian Brother-type Catholic schooling (which I and my intellect got out of as soon as I could). I'm certain that fed into the stories, as did the love of movies.” This was the landscape I became a frequenter of for years. So I was wandering through streets of ruined houses, a couple of shops, and this little flea-pit cinema still standing. There were dozens of cinemas in Liverpool, often in the middle of bombed streets.
In Britain, you couldn't see most horror movies until you were 16 or could pass for 16, so I had a lot of catching up to do. But when I started moving away from Lovecraft in my writing, I was venturing all over Liverpool because I'd also fallen in love with the movies. “I fell in love with the field before I ever started writing it, so my affinity with horror had much more to do with the fiction I was getting my hands on than with anything more external. He lives with his family in Merseyside, England. In 1999, Campbell received both the Stoker Life Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association and was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. Campbell has also written film novelizations, edited anthologies (including the Best New Horror series with Stephen Jones), and written articles and essays collected in Ramsey Campbell, Probably (2002). Later books include five British Fantasy Award winners: To Wake the Dead (1980), Incarnate (1983), The Hungry Moon (1986), The Influence (1988), and The Long Lost (1993) International Horror Guild winner The House on Nazareth Hill (1996) and World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award winning collection Alone with the Horrors (1993). His hundreds of stories and dozens of novels range from supernatural to psychological horror, often of the "quiet" variety.
His first novel, The Doll Who Ate His Mother, appeared in 1976 and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award. Ramsey Campbell submitted his first book for publication at age 11 - and sold his first story at age 15. THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD
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