Campbell began publishing professional work of genre interest with "The Church in High Street" in Dark Mind, Dark Heart (anth 1962) edited by August Derleth who encouraged him to create an independent milieu for his stories within the general compass of the Cthulhu Mythos as adumbrated by H P Lovecraft, a range of work by various authors that melds influences from many genres to produce an amalgam of images of evil and alienation. This work already shows the influence of writers like M R James and Algernon Blackwood, plus imagery from Comics and Horror movies, particularly the film noir and the work of the early German directors these influences would pervade much of his later work. His earliest work, dating from 1957 to 1963 (but not then released professionally), was assembled as two special issues of Crypt of Cthulhu: The Tomb-Herd and Others (coll 1986) and Ghostly Tales (coll 1987). (1946- ) UK author, primarily of Horror, son-in-law of A Bertram Chandler he has also published as Montgomery Comfort and Jay Ramsey, and under the House Names Carl Dreadstone and E K Leyton.
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