Edited by Stephen Jones
Illustrated by Randy Broecker, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton and Allan Servoss
(a) Fedogan & Bremer, USA • hc Trade Edition (2,000 copies) • $35.00
ISBN: 1-878252-56-9
(b) Fedogan & Bremer, USA • hc Limited Edition (100 copies slipcased) • $120.00
ISBN: 1-878252-43-7
Cover by Bob Eggleton
[Note: It is a great disappointment to me that, having gone out on a limb to produce this book, the
publisher took two years to pay the advance, has never sent me any contributor's copies, and has
yet to supply a single royalty statement. At least I made sure that all the authors and artists
were paid on time and received their copies.
—Stephen Jones.]
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Weird new terrors spawn in H.P. Lovecraft's sea-shadowed town. Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' forms a major link in the author's renowned "Cthulhu Mythos", featuring a race of ichthyoid Deep Ones which over the years have inter-bred with humans in strange and terrifying ways. Following on from his World Fantasy Award-nominated anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, editor Stephen Jones returns to Lovecraft's decaying Massachusetts seaport as such established writers as Ramsey Campbell, Hugh B. Cave, Basil Copper, John Glasby, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Richard A. Lupoff, Kim Newman, Paul McAuley, Michael Marshall Smith and Steve Rasnic Tem once again relate a fictional history of Innsmouth and its batrachian inhabitants. The book also includes a discarded draft of Lovecraft's seminal story about that foetid, forsaken New England fishing town with its sparkling treasure and loathsome denizens, along with a major new Lovecraftian novella by international best-selling author Brian Lumley, written especially for this volume. In these stories, as the decades pass, Dagon's scaly spawn continues to spread out from America's east coast to cast its malignant influence over the rest of the world. Meanwhile, mankind finally discovers the true nature of the unspeakable evil that lies hidden beneath the waves out beyond the reef, biding its time until it is ready to rise once again . . .
| INTRODUCTION: WEIRD SHADOWS . . . |
Stephen Jones |
| DISCARDED DRAFT OF 'THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH' |
H.P. Lovecraft |
| THE QUEST FOR Y'HA-NTHLEI |
John Glasby |
| BRACKISH WATERS |
Richard A. Lupoff |
| VOICES IN THE WATER |
Basil Copper |
| ANOTHER FISH STORY |
Kim Newman |
| TAKE ME TO THE RIVER |
Paul McAuley |
| THE COMING |
Hugh B. Cave |
| EGGS |
Steve Rasnic Tem |
| FROM CABINET 34, DRAWER 6 |
Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| RAISED BY THE MOON |
Ramsey Campbell |
| FAIR EXCHANGE |
Michael Marshall Smith |
| THE TAINT |
Brian Lumley |
| AFTERWORDS: CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES |
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Nominated for the 2006 World Fantasy Award
Nominated for the 2005 HWA Bram Stoker Award
Reviews
"Fascinating and recommended"
—Kurt Unsworth
ALL HALLOWS #41, February 2006
"Not just H.P. Lovecraft fans will revel in this fine follow-up to Jones' Shadow Over Innsmouth (1994), a World Fantasy 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."
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.COM
"Jones has brought together some of the industry's top-notch authors . . . This collection is strongly recommended for Mythos fans. Due to the overall quality of the writing, though, it is strongly recommended for everyone else, too."
—Chris Welch
HELLNOTES NEWSLETTER, Vol.9 No.48, December 15, 2005
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