Welcome to Steve Campbell Creations
Hello, I’m Steve Campbell, artist and author. Steve Campbell Creations highlights my creative journey in life, particularly my artwork and books. My art consists of wildlife and landscape paintings, photography, and comic strips. My writing includes poetry and fiction.
Other features at this site include future endeavors, creating art, going behind-the-scenes, links to my books, and much more.
As a landscape painter, I like to work in plein air. I find nature endlessly inspirational in both making art and planning my stories. It’s also where you can find me recording the world with my photography.
As a cartoonist, I enjoy looking at life through the humorist’s lens. This sometimes colors my poetry, though I write most of it from an inquisitive approach, breaking down my observations and discoveries into free-style verses of commentary that I call Naked Poetry.
As an author, I have self-published Rural Fantasy books about a young character named Vree Erickson and a weird Pennsylvania town called Ridgewood. You can find these stories at Amazon in the Green Crystal series written by Steven L Campbell.
Thanks for joining me at Steve Campbell Creations. And thanks so much for reading.
—Steve
My Green Crystal Series of Books
Tenth Anniversary Editions for 2023
15-year-old Vree Erickson’s life is never the same after lightning strikes her on Halloween night and she can see the supernatural.
There are six books in the Green Crystal rural fantasy series set in a town called Ridgewood where everyone knows each other but their deepest secrets. Sure to keep you up past lights out, enraptured in Vree’s plights, there’s no shortage of magical moments in these pages where magic will find its way into your heart, right up to the last page.
Book One: Night of the Hell Hounds
All Vree Erickson wants to do is go to her friend’s house and enjoy a backyard Halloween get-together. But when lightning strikes her, she sees the supernatural and risks losing her life from vicious hell hounds, falling from a cliff, and treading the icy waters of a local lake. Will her life ever be the same again?
Night of the Hell Hounds is the first book in the Green Crystal series of eerie short stories by Steven L Campbell, a bright talent in the fantasy genre.
Find it at Amazon. 99 U.S. cents. Available formats: Kindle, Text-to-speech, Screen Reader, and Kindle Lending.
Fiction: A rural fantasy short story.
Kindle Pages: 24 @ 4,060+ words
Language: English
Book Two: Trespassers
A lightning strike has left Vree Erickson suffering from headaches, dizziness, and fainting spells. After a trip to the hospital for brain scans, a car thief kidnaps her at gunpoint. Suddenly, she’s struggling to survive the abduction and her ailment while the world of the supernatural unleashes around her. Once again, she wonders if her life will ever be the same again.
Trespassers is the second book in the Green Crystal series of eerie short stories by fantasy author Steven L Campbell.
Find it at Amazon. 99 U.S. cents. Available formats: Kindle, Text-to-speech, Screen Reader, and Kindle Lending.
Fiction: A rural fantasy short story.
Kindle Pages: 41 @ 7,690+ words
Language: English
Book Three: I I I
Available soon
Book Four: The Curse
Available soon
Book Five: Mean Time
Available soon
Book Six: Luminary
Available soon
More eBooks by Steven L Campbell
Kismet: A Ridgewood Tale
Find it at Smashwords. Available formats: epub, mobi, pdf, lrf, pdb, txt, and html.
Fiction: A science fiction adventure short story.
Words: 18,950
Language: American English
ISBN: 9781310880070
A diary from the past warns Addison Taylor about her future. However, it is Christmas, and she is too busy with her recent marriage and problems at work to worry about a book whose author is certainly delusional. But when she and her husband hike Myers Ridge, the diary’s warnings become real and force the couple headlong into mystery, suspense, and a strange world of past, present, and future. Will she and her husband change the past to protect their future together?
Night of the Hellhounds: A Novel
Find it at Barnes and Noble. Available format: NOOK Book.
Fiction: A science fiction and supernatural novel.
File size: 581 KB
Language: English
BN ID: 2940149975402
This is the novelization of “Night of the Hell Hounds” short story, third edition. Night of the Hellhounds: A Novel is about a girl destined by the fates to die during the summer. ~ Vree Erickson’s life has gone from bad to worse. She left the lawnmower in the rain and lightning killed her father and burned down her family’s home. To complicate matters even more, the lightning struck her and left her with psychic powers. Now, she and her family are forced to move to her maternal grandparents’ home on Myers Ridge, a strange place near Ridgewood, Pennsylvania. There, July fifth marks the annual “Night of the Hellhounds”—a time when a vengeful spirit witch and her hellhounds return to the property next door every year and reign terror there until midnight. Unfortunately, try as she may, Vree is unable to ignore the strangeness around her or the witch who wants to take away her powers and kill her. With the help of the cute boy from up the road and mysterious creatures that only they can see, Vree embarks on a difficult journey to save her life and destroy the ghost witch who wants her dead.
Author’s Note: Night of the Hellhounds: A Novel is no longer part of the Vree Erickson canon, but it’s still available at Barnes and Noble only.
Margga’s Curse: A Vree Erickson Novel, Book One
Author’s Note: This is Night of the Hellhounds: A Novel with a new title. Plus, it’s a perma-free book at Smashwords! It was supposed to replace the Barnes and Noble edition, but I lost my B&N log-in info years ago. This book is no longer part of the Vree Erickson canon, but it’s fun to read all the same.
Find it at Smashwords. Available formats: epub, mobi, pdf, lrf, pdb, and txt.
Fiction: A supernatural thriller and suspense novella.
Words: 47,210
Language: American English
ISBN: 9781311627582
15-year-old Vree Erickson and her family are forced to move upstate to her maternal grandparents’ home on Myers Ridge near Ridgewood, Pennsylvania after lightning strikes her, kills her father, and burns down her family’s home. To complicate matters more, the lightning strike leaves her with psychic powers. On the day of the move, she sees and hears mysterious invisible creatures and becomes a victim to the annual “Night of the Hellhounds” when the vengeful spirit of a witch returns to the property next door and reigns terror there. With the help of the boy from up the road, she embarks on a difficult journey to save her life and destroy the ghost witch who wants her dead.
Old Bones: A Collection of Short Stories
Find it at Smashwords. Available formats: epub, mobi, pdf, lrf, pdb, and txt.
Fiction: A collection of fantasy fiction short stories.
Words: 32,970
Language: American English
ISBN: 9781310675195
A collection of 19 short stories spanning 40+ years of the author’s career as an independent author. The stories are divided into three groups: Tales for Young Adults, Oddities, and Tales for Adults, and center on eerie Ridgewood, Pennsylvania and some of the characters who live there.
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