Series
Severn Valley
Ramsey Campbell · 4 novels · 1 novella · 3 novelettes · 8 short stories · 1962–2018
Ramsey Campbell set many of his horror tales — including The Darkest Part of the Woods and The Last Revelation of Gla'aki — around the fictional Severn Valley city of Brichester in Gloucestershire, near the River Severn, after August Derleth suggested he move his Lovecraft-inspired stories from New England to English settings. The Darkest Part of the Woods evokes Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the woods around Brichester, while The Last Revelation of Gla'aki revisits the mythos of Campbell's earliest stories.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- The Three Births of Daoloth(3 works)
Map
Severn Valley at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s7
- 1970s3
- 1980s1
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
- 2010s4
Shape
4 novels · 1 novella · 3 novelettes · 8 short stories
1 author
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book16 of 16 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Searching Deaddarkest · calmest
- Potentialbrightest · most intense