I imagine you know the satisfaction that having just completed a novel or even a short story brings, but half an hour (if that) after finishing a first draft I’ll be pondering what to write next. Admittedly that’s not the case when I have to get up early to travel, but otherwise it’s every day, Christmas and my birthday too. For a long time, and increasingly now, I grow frustrated if a day goes by when I’m not either writing or working on what I’ll write next or rereading a draft as a preparation to rewriting it. Ramsey Campbell: It’s a compulsion, Simon. What do you attribute this productivity to? Simon Bestwick: You’ve had, to date, an enviably productive career: thirty-one novels (thirty-five including your film novelisations of Bride of Frankenstein, Dracula’s Daughter and The Wolfman), five novellas, fifteen story collections and now a book of limericks, along with fourteen anthologies as editor and countless individual short stories and non-fiction articles. Author of such classics as The Parasite, The Influence, The Face That Must Die, Ancient Images, and more recently, Ghosts Know, Holes for Faces, The Booking, and the forthcoming The Searching Dead, Campbell has won more awards for his writing than any other living horror writer. Simon Bestwick recently chatted with the legendary British horror writer, Ramsey Campbell.
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