Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth Stephen Jones 9781835417416

Secret cults, forbidden knowledge, and cryptic prophecies await in this companion collection to Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 12 more short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.

This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.

In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones assembles some of today's most talented horror authors-the finest of the modern Lovecraftian acolytes.

Return to Innsmouth with these 12 haunting horror stories and encounter a scientist who stumbles upon a secret cult, a thief whose heist goes horrifically awry, and a magician who usurps a prophecy only to bring about something much, much worse-plus H. P. Lovecraft's previously discarded draft of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'! This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.

Featuring stories from:
H. P. Lovecraft
Ramsey Campbell
Hugh B. Cave
Basil Copper
John Glasby
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Brian Lumley
Richard A. Lupoff
Paul McAuley
Kim Newman
Michael Marshall Smith
Steve Rasnic Tem

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. Based in the UK.

H.P. Lovecraft was the master of weird fiction and one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century.

Kim Newman is an award-winning writer, critic, journalist and broadcaster who lives in London. He is a contributing editor to the UK film magazine Empire, and writes its popular monthly segment, 'The Cult of Kim Newman'. He also writes for assorted publications including Sight & Sound, The Dark Side and The Guardian. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV, and is the chief writer of the BBC TV series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema.

He has won many awards, including the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Prix Ozone, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and James Herbert Awards. Kim also writes non-fiction books focused on popular culture, film, and television, including a comprehensive overview of the horror film industry, Nightmare Movies (Bloomsbury).

You can keep up to date with Kim's events and writing via his website johnnyalucard.com. Find him on most social media platforms.

Ramsey Campbell

Michael Marshall-Smith is the author of several horror and science-fiction novels, including Only Forward.

John Glasby

Paul McAuley

Steve Rasnic Tem

Caitlin R. Kiernan

Brian Lumley

Basil Copper

Hugh B. Cave

Richard Lupoff

PRAISE FOR SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH

GOOD, SLIMY FUN . . . There are a number of genuinely frightening pieces here.
--San Francisco Chronicle

A FINE ASSEMBLY OF TALENTED WRITERS . . . A super anthology for Lovecraft fans.
--Science Fiction Chronicle

A terrific anthology . . . from some of the best British writers in the field today. Highly recommended.
--The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

A supremely entertaining volume . . . A very strong anthology.
--The Scream Factory

Horror abounds in Shadows over Innsmouth.
--Publishers Weekly

Addicts of American Gothic will like it.
--The Times (London)

An intelligent, witty anthology.
--The Good Book Guide

Lovecraftians will rejoice.
--Booklist

PRAISE FOR WEIRD SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH

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 clichEs. 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, CaitlIn R. Kiernan and Ramsey Campbell.
--Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR WEIRDER SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH

One of the best Lovecraft-inspired anthologies ever!
-This is Horror