Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth by Stephen Jones

This is a London-published volume of a series of books related to the Innsmouth theme. That film, whatever it was, and 'The Exorcist' have been the only two fictional films which have horrified me. When it got to the scene of the trap door being opened in the subbasement I freaked out, running all the way home in the dark. I had gone to see it at Park Ridge's Pickwick Theatre alone and at dusk. The other instance was a movie related to the whole Innsmouth theme. That freaked me so much that I turned on all the lights until our parents got home. One instance was upon reading his 'Colour Out of Space' while I was babysitting my little brother. Lovecraft was an exception, albeit in childhood. I usually find 'horror' fiction and cinema boring. Since then I've seen several of the film adaptations and read two biographies of the author, encouraged by my roommate and friends in the horror-writing community. Like many adolescents, I read pretty much all of Lovecraft in cheap paperback editions back in high school. From there, Dagon’s blasphemous spawn spread out across the globe, while the offspring of that decaying fishing town undergo their own, often bizarre, metamorphoses.Īs the world changes, so through eldritch rituals and human sacrifices the Deep Ones’ masters-the terrifying Great Old Ones themselves-prepare to escape their prisons when the stars are right, so that they may once again reclaim the Earth as their own.Īs the waters continue to rise, mankind begins its ultimate struggle for survival against a pantheon of dark gods and their batrachian foot-soldiers.

Once again taking Lovecraft’s original 1931 novella as inspiration, we are introduced to the Massachusetts seaport and its ichthyoid denizens years before that fateful FBI raid. Lovecraft and a “posthumous collaboration” between the author and August Derleth. Kiernan, Brian Lumley, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith, Simon Kurt Unsworth and Conrad Williams, along with an Innsmouth poem by H.P. The final volume in the trilogy that began with the World Fantasy Award-nominated Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994) and Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (2005), containing stories by Ramsey Campbell, Adrian Cole, John Glasby, Brian Hodge, Caitlín R.

Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth by Stephen Jones