"This is Campbell at the height of his powers, proving once again that he is a master of the genre."
– Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"A return to and a revisioning of some of his earliest imaginings, the trilogy is a kind of autobiography of its protagonist, in which his lifelong struggle with a supernatural agency occurs against the backdrop of post-war British history. The result is a magisterial work, though such a description scants the novels’ propulsive readability. It’s another remarkable achievement in a career full of them."
– Locus Magazine
"The first book in his upcoming “The Three Births of Daoloth” trilogy, The Searching Dead is Ramsey Campbell at the peak of his craft, the literary equivalent of a well-aged bottle of Balvenie."
– HorrorDNA
"This novel is not only the start of an awesome horror epic by a master, but also a compelling coming-of-age story about a budding writer finding his way in a terrifying world."
– Library Journal
"I highly recommend this trilogy for new Ramsey Campbell fans like myself. This seems like the best possible introduction to his body of work."
– Cemetery Dance
“Britain’s most respected living horror writer”
– Oxford Companion to English Literature
“One of the century’s great literary exponents of the gothic and horrific”
– The Guardian
“Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today.”
– Time Out
“Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good”
– Stephen King
“The John Le Carre of horror fiction”
– Bookshelf, Radio 4
“Britain’s greatest living horror writer”
“Britain’s leading horror novelist.”
– New Statesman
“An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that”
– Guillermo del Toro
“The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers”
– Financial Times
“He writes of our deepest fears in a precise, clear prose that somehow manages to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time. He is a powerful, original writer, and you owe it to yourself to make his acquaintance”
– Washington Post
“One of the few who can scare and disturb as well as make me laugh out loud. His humour is very black but very funny, and that’s a rare gift to have”
– Mark Morris, The Observer
“For sheer ability to compose disturbing, evocative prose, he is unmatched in the horror/fantasy field... He turns the traditional horror novel inside out, and makes it work brilliantly”
– Fangoria
“A horror writer in the classic mould... Britain’s premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin”
– Q Magazine
“The Grand Master of British horror... the greatest living writer of horror fiction”
– Vector
“Ramsey Campbell’s work is tremendous”
– Jonathan Ross
“In Campbell’s hands words take on a life of their own, creating images that stay with you, feelings that prey on you, and people you hope never ever to meet”
– Starburst
“The finest writer now working in the horror field”
– Interzone
“Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James”
– Times
