Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781165297 ISBN 13: 9781781165294

Publisher: Titan Books, 2013

Synopsis

For decades, H. P. Lovecraft's masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award winning editor Stephen Jones has assembled eleven of today's most prominent and well-respected horror authors - the finest of the Lovecraftian acolytes.. Included is Lovecraft's own unpublished draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

"Introduction: Weird Shadows..." by Stephen Jones
"Discarded Draft of 'The Shadows Over Innsmouth'" by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Quest for Y'ha-nthlei" by John Glasby
"Brackish Waters" by Richard A. Lupoff
"Voices in the Water" by Basil Copper
"Another Fish Story" by Kim Newman
"Take Me to the River" by Paul McAuley
"The Coming" by Hugh B. Cave
"Eggs" by Steve Rasnic Tem
"From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6" by Caitlín R. Kiernan
"Raised by the Moon" by Ramsey Campbell
"Fair Exchange" by Michael Marshall Smith
"The Taint" by Brian Lumley

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Jones is a leading expert on horror and is the author of the Illustrated Movie Guide series. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, four Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a twenty-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee.

From Publishers Weekly:

Not just H.P. Lovecraft fans will revel in this fine follow-up to Jones's Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994), a World Fantasy Award finalist. As in its predecessor, the stories in this anthology draw inspiration from Lovecraft's classic novelette of alien miscegenation, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," but avoid Cthulhu Mythos clichés. The two best tales are Kim Newman's metafictional "Another Fish Story," which involves a quest for a subterranean sea in the Mohave Desert by Charles Manson and Lon Chaney Jr., and Paul McAuley's affecting "Take Me to the River," which explains why people would seek the gods known as the Old Ones. Other contributors include Richard A. Lupoff, Basil Copper, Caitlín R. Kiernan and Ramsey Campbell. (Jan.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781165297
• ISBN 13: 9781781165294
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Jones Stephen