Editing Ramsey Campbell (section)

===Severn Valley===
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The Severn Valley is the setting of several fictional towns and other locations created by Campbell.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sawyer |first1=Andy |editor1-last=Crawford |editor1-first=Gary William |title=Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810892989 |pages=4–5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e5FWAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22severn+valley%22+campbell&pg=PA4 |access-date=16 August 2020 |chapter=That Ill-Rumored and Evilly-Shadowed Seaport: Ramsey Campbell's Lovecraftian Secret Histories of Liverpool}}</ref> Part of the Cthulhu Mythos started by Lovecraft, the fictional milieu is arguably the most detailed mythos setting outside of [[Lovecraft Country]] itself.

In his early writings, Campbell used the setting of Lovecraft's stories, in the fictional New England area of the [[Lovecraft Country|Miskatonic River valley]].   At the suggestion of fellow Lovecraftian writer, [[August Derleth]], he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the [[Massachusetts]] locales of [[Arkham]], [[Dunwich]] and [[Innsmouth]], and moved them to English settings in and around the fictional [[Gloucestershire]] city of [[Severn Valley (Cthulhu Mythos)#Brichester|Brichester]], near the [[River Severn]], creating his own [[Severn Valley (Cthulhu Mythos)|Severn Valley]] milieu for Lovecraftian horrors.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sawyer |first1=Andy |editor1-last=Rees-Jones |editor1-first=Deryn |editor2-last=Murphy |editor2-first=Michael |title=Writing Liverpool: Essays and Interviews |date=2007 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=9781846310737 |page=172 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQwWXe9XXREC&q=%22severn%20valley%22%20 |access-date=16 August 2020 |chapter=Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool}}</ref><ref>Campbell, Ramsey. "Chasing the Unknown", introduction to ''[[Cold Print]]'' (1993), pp.11-13. {{ISBN|0-8125-1660-5}}</ref>  The invented locale of Brichester is the main town of Campbell's Severn Valley, and was deeply influenced by Campbell's native Liverpool, and much of his later work is set in the real locales of [[Liverpool]] and the [[Merseyside]] area.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Joshi |first1=S.T. |title=Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction |date=2001 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=9780853237754 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u15LIPjOcpUC&q=%22severn%20valley%22%20 |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>  The [[River Severn]] is an actual river in Wales and western [[England]].  Campbell's stories mention various real-world locales, including the [[Cotswolds|Cotswold Hills]], [[Berkeley, Gloucestershire|Berkeley]], and the [[A38 road]]. These references place "Campbell Country" in the southern part of [[Gloucestershire]],  roughly between the cities of [[Gloucester]] and [[Bristol]]. This area is more correctly referred to as the [[Vale of Berkeley]] or the [[Severn Estuary]]; the real-world [[Severn Valley (England)|Severn Valley]] refers to an area around fifty miles (80&nbsp;km) further north. His later work continued the focus on Liverpool; in particular, his 2005 novel ''Secret Stories'' (published in the U.S. in an abridged edition<ref>Joshi, S. T., ''[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Classics_and_Contemporaries/7WkqAQAAIAAJ Classics and Contemporaries]'', Hippocampus Press 2009, p.131.</ref> as ''Secret Story'' (2006) both exemplifies and satirizes Liverpudlian speech, characters, humour and culture, while ''Creatures of the Pool'' draws on the city's geography and history.

====Inclusions====
Some of his stories about the fictional Severn Valley can be found in the following anthologies and collections:
*{{cite book|editor-last=Aniolowski|editor-first=Scott David|title=Made In Goatswood|year=1995|location=Oakland, CA|publisher=Chaosium|isbn=1-56882-046-1}}
*{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Ramsey|title=Cold Print|edition=1st|year=1987|location=New York, NY|publisher=Tom Doherty Associates|isbn=0-8125-1660-5}}
*{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Ramsey|title=Cold Print|year=1993|location=London|publisher=Headline|isbn=0-7472-4059-0}}
*{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Ramsey|title=Demons by Daylight|year=1973|location=Sauk City, WI|publisher=Arkham House}}
*{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Ramsey|title=The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Less Welcome Tenants|year=1964|location=Sauk City, WI|publisher=Arkham House}}
*{{cite book|last=Campbell|first=Ramsey|title=Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death|year=2002|location=New York, NY|publisher=Tom Doherty Associates|isbn=0-7653-0004-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/scaredstifftales00camp}}