Forming his literary apprenticeship with stories modelled after Lovecraft's themes, Campbell's first collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (Arkham House, 1964), published when he was eighteen years old, collects his Lovecraftian pastiches to that date. Campbell has written, "In 1964 I was several kinds of lucky to find a publisher, and one kind depended on my having written a Lovecraftian book for Arkham House, the only publisher likely even to have considered it and one of the very few then to be publishing horror."Ramsey Campbell. Alone With the Horrors Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1993, p. ix The title story of the collection introduces Campbell's invention of a tome of occult lore similar to Lovecraft's forbidden Necronomicon, The Revelations of Gla'aki (see Books of the Cthulhu Mythos).
Forming his literary apprenticeship with stories modelled after Lovecraft's themes Campbell's first collection The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (Arkham House 1964) published when he was eighteen years old collects his Lovecraftian pastiches to that date Campbell has written "In 1964 I was several kinds of lucky to find a publisher and one kind depended on my having written a Lovecraftian book for Arkham House the only publisher likely even to have considered it and one of the very few then to be publishing horror"Ramsey Campbell Alone With the Horrors Sauk City WI Arkham House 1993 p ix The title story of the collection introduces Campbell's invention of a tome of occult lore similar to Lovecraft's forbidden Necronomicon The Revelations of Gla'aki (see Books of the Cthulhu Mythos)