The Way of the Worm (3) (The Three Births of Daoloth)

The third and final novel in Ramsey Campbell's triumphant Lovecraftian trilogy, The Three Births of Daoloth, where time travel, monstrous evil and the alien apocalypse combine to create a stunning conclusion for streaming TV lovers and suspense readers alike."With The Way of the Worm, Campbell’s cosmic trilogy comes to a triumphant conclusion." — S.T. JoshiBook 3 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.The present. The cult that has been growing since The Searching Dead now operates openly throughout the world. Their leader, Christian Noble, is almost a century old and inhumanly vital. Dominic Sheldrake joins the cult and learns their secret of travelling through time, but only to be faced with the monstrous future the cult is invoking.FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

for the three novels must be regarded as a tightly knit unity

"There is little doubt that Ramsey Campbell’s trilogy

Locus Magazine Review of The Searching Dead, book 1

"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."

Library Journal Review of The Searching Dead, book 1

"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."

Horror Delve

"I’m very much looking forward to the third and final installment of this excellent trilogy."

Sadie Hartmann for Cemetery Dance on Book 1 Praise for Ramsey Campbell:

"I highly recommend this trilogy for new Ramsey Campbell fans like myself. This seems like the best possible introduction to his body of work."

Guillermo del Toro

“An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that.”

Stephen King

“Good horror writers are quite rare, and Campbell is better than just good.”

Publishers Weekly

“He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood... You forget you’re just reading a story.”

Oxford Companion to English Literature

“Britain’s most respected living horror writer.”

The Guardian

“One of the century’s great literary exponents of the gothic and horrific.”

Time Out

“Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today.”

Bookshelf, Radio 4

“The John Le Carre of horror fiction.”

Alan Moore

“Britain’s greatest living horror writer.”

New Statesman

“Britain’s leading horror novelist.”

Stephen King

“I would say that only five writers have written serious novels which incorporate themes of fantasy or the inexplicable and still qualify as literature: T. E. D. Klein, Peter Straub, Richard Adams, Jonathan Carroll and Ramsey Campbell."

Financial Times

“The most sophisticated and highly regarded of British horror writers.”

Washington Post

“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.”

Mark Morris, The Observer

“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.”

Fangoria

“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."

period."

"Ramsey Campbell is not only the most important horror writer we have, he is also one of the most important writers we have

John Gilbert (Winner of British Fantasy Award, editor of FEAR magazine.)

"He is a living legend whose name is mentioned in the same breadth as M.R. James, Arthur Machen and H.P. Lovecraft."

Neil Gaiman

"I can lose myself in a Ramsey Campbell story. I mean this literally. My world will not make sense. That the Ramsey Campbell I have known for almost forty years now is cheerful, affable, sensible, and profoundly sane, and in all ways a delight to know, does not lessen the effect of the fiction on me as a reader."

Q Magazine

“A horror writer in the classic mould... Britain’s premier contemporary exponent of the art of scaring you out of your skin.”

Starburst

“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.”

Times

“Ramsey Campbell is the nearest thing we have to an heir to M. R. James.”

About the Author

Ramsey Campbell was born in Liverpool in 1946 and now lives in Wallasey. He has received 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. His first book was published by the legendary Arkham House when he was eighteen years old. His later work draws on the British and American traditions of horror fiction. It ranges from the psychological to the ghostly, the subtly uncanny to the cosmic, the quietly disquieting to the terrifying, the poignant to the darkly comic. His Flame Tree books include Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach, in which a family on holiday encounters an ancient horror on a Greek island, and Think Yourself Lucky, where the internet lets loose the monsters lurking within people just like us. In Somebody’s Voice a writer finds his memory and personality threatened by trying to write the memoir of a victim of abuse. The Three Births of Daoloth trilogy – The Searching Dead, Born to the Dark and The Way of the Worm – pits three childhood friends against a terror as vast as time and space.Three of Campbell’s novels have been filmed – The Influence (available from FLAME TREE PRESS), Pact of the Fathers and The Nameless (in development as a Netflix series). He reviewed films for the local BBC for nearly forty years, and is presently working on an appreciation of the Three Stooges, Six Stooges and Counting. A new supernatural novel, Fellstones, is in progress too.

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