Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Inhabitant Of The Lake And Less Welcome Tenants | 1964 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 2 | Demons by Daylight | 1973 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 3 | SUPERHORROR | 1976 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 4 | The Height of the Scream | 1976 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 5 | Dark Companions | 1982 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 6 | Cold Print | 1985 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 7 | Black Wine | 1986 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 8 | Scared Stiff | 1987 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 9 | Dark Feasts | 1987 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 10 | Waking Nightmares | 1991 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 11 | Alone With the Horrors | 1993 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 12 | Two Obscure Tales | 1993 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 13 | Strange Things and Stranger Places | 1993 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 14 | Far Away & Never | 1996 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 15 | Ghosts and Grisly Things | 1998 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 16 | Told by the Dead | 2003 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 17 | The Book of Liverpool | 2007 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 18 | Inconsequential Tales | 2008 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 19 | Just Behind You | 2009 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 20 | The Inhabitant of The Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants | 2011 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 21 | Cut Corners Volume 1 | 2012 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 22 | Holes for Faces | 2013 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 23 | 10,000 Ghost Stories | 2014 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 24 | Hornsea Hauntings | 2014 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 25 | Visions from Brichester | 2015 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 26 | By the Light of My Skull | 2018 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 27 | The Companion & Other Phantasmagorical Stories | 2019 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 28 | The Retrospective & Other Phantasmagorical Stories Volume 2 | 2020 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 29 | The Village Killings & Other Novellas | 2021 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
| 30 | Ramsey Campbell, Certainly | 2022 | Ramsey Campbell | Buy |
Ramsey Campbell’s short story collections span his entire career, from his debut The Inhabitant Of The Lake And Less Welcome Tenants (1964) to Ramsey Campbell, Certainly (2022). He has published 30 collections, making his short fiction output one of the largest in the horror genre.
His early collections show strong Lovecraftian influence, while later volumes like Waking Nightmares (1991) and Ghosts and Grisly Things (1998) demonstrate his mature style of quiet, accumulating dread. Alone With the Horrors (1993) is generally considered the essential single-volume introduction to his short work.