num_pages: 297
description: 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 . . .
language: English
title: Weird Shadows over Innsmouth
titlecomplete: Weird Shadows over Innsmouth
genres: Weird Fiction, Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraftian, Anthologies, Fiction, Short Stories, Horror, Fantasy
ratings_count: 193
series: The Diogenes Club, Shadows Over Innsmouth
publisher: Arkham House Pub