The Wise Friend

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Pub Date 23 Apr 2020 | Archive Date 11 Jan 2022
Flame Tree Press | FLAME TREE PRESS

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Patrick Torrington’s aunt Thelma was a successful artist whose late work turned towards the occult. While staying with her in his teens he found evidence that she used to visit magical sites. As an adult he discovers her journal of her explorations, and his teenage son Roy becomes fascinated too. His experiences at the sites scare Patrick away from them, but Roy carries on the search, together with his new girlfriend. Can Patrick convince his son that his increasingly terrible suspicions are real, or will what they’ve helped to rouse take a new hold on the world?

FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Available in hardback, paperback, ebook and audiobook editions worldwide.

Patrick Torrington’s aunt Thelma was a successful artist whose late work turned towards the occult. While staying with her in...


A Note From the Publisher

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.
His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain, where a film of The Influence is in production. He is the President of the Society of Fantastic Films.


AWARDS:

The Hungry Moon, British Fantasy Award, Best Novel, 1988

Grand Master Award, World Horror Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999

Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, 1999

Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild, 2007

A Life Achievement Award, World Fantasy Awards, 2015

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...


Advance Praise

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

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


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781787584044
PRICE US$24.95 (USD)
PAGES 288

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