# Born to the Dark - Hardcover

by **Ramsey Campbell** (Author)

**_"Campbell's writing is intimate, darkly funny, and deeply human, balancing edge-of-the-seat suspense with heartfelt character development. This delightfully unsettling sequel does not disappoint." -- Publishers Weekly_**

**Book 2 in the Three Births of Daoloth trilogy.**

1985\. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His and Lesley's small son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever. Roberta Parkin has become a journalist and infiltrates the new version of the Nobles' cult, but are the experiences it offers too powerful for her to control? In order to rescue his son from the cult, if he can, Dominic must undergo them too...

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### Author Biography

**Ramsey Campbell** was born in Liverpool in 1946 and still lives on Merseyside. The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes him as "Britain's most respected living horror writer". He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including 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. Among his novels are _The Face That Must Die_, _Incarnate_, _Midnight Sun_, _The Count of Eleven_, _Silent Children_, _The Darkest Part of the Woods_, _The Overnight_, _Secret Story_, _The Grin of the Dark_, _Thieving Fear_, _Creatures of the Pool_, _The Seven Days of Cain_, _Ghosts Know_, _The Kind Folk_, _Think Yourself Lucky_ and _Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach_. _Needing Ghosts_, _The Last Revelation of Gla'aki_, _The Pretence_ and _The Booking_ are novellas. His collections include _Waking Nightmares_, _Alone with the Horrors_, _Ghosts and Grisly Things_, _Told by the Dead_, _Just Behind You_ and _Holes for Faces_, and his non-fiction is collected as _Ramsey Campbell, Probably_. Limericks of the _Alarming and Phantasmal_ are what they sound like.

His novels _The Nameless_, _Pact of the Fathers_ and _The Influence_ have been filmed in Spain. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** October 19, 2021

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