Edited by Stephen Jones
Illustrated by Randy Broecker
(a) Fedogan & Bremer, USA • hc • $36.00
ISBN 978-1-878252-07-4
(b) Fedogan & Bremer, USA (2014) • hc (Limited to 100 signed, numbered and slipcased copies and an undetermined number of signed, lettered and slipcased copies stamped 'Contributor's Copy'.) • $110.00
ISBN 978-1-878252-01-2
[Note: A softcover ARC of this title also exists.]
Cover by Les Edwards
Interior illustration by Randy Broecker
(c) Titan Books, USA/UK (2015) • tp • $14.95/£8.99
ISBN 978-1-783291-31-1
[Note: Revised and updated edition, with additional interior artwork.]
Cover by John Jude Palencar
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FINAL SHADOWS GATHER . . . 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. 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. Lovecraft and a "posthumous collaboration" between the author and August Derleth. 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. 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. While 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. As
the waters continue to rise, mankind begins its ultimate struggle for survival against a pantheon of dark gods and their batrachian foot-soldiers . . .
| INTRODUCTION: WEIRDER SHADOWS . . . |
Stephen Jones |
| THE PORT |
H.P. Lovecraft |
| INNSMOUTH BANE |
John Glasby |
| RICHARD RIDDLE, BOY DETECTIVE IN "THE CASE OF THE FRENCH SPY" |
Kim Newman |
| INNSMOUTH CLAY |
H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth |
| THE ARCHBISHOP'S WELL |
Reggie Oliver |
| YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW |
Adrian Cole |
| FISH BRIDE |
Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| THE HAG STONE |
Conrad Williams |
| ON THE REEF |
Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| THE SONG OF SIGHS |
Angela Slatter |
| THE SAME DEEP WATERS AS YOU |
Brian Hodge |
| THE WINNER |
Ramsey Campbell |
| THE TRANSITION OF ELIZABETH HASKINGS |
Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| THE CHAIN |
Michael Marshall Smith |
| INTO THE WATER |
Simon Kurt Unsworth |
| RISING, NOT DREAMING |
Angela Slatter |
| THE LONG LAST NIGHT |
Brian Lumley |
| AFTERWORDS: CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES |
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Reviews
"A well thought-out and wonderfully curated homage to Lovecraft's work . . . a perfect collection of horror stories."
—Leona Turford
STARBURST, January 3, 2015
"A testament both to Mr Jones' skill as an editor and the talents of the authors he has picked to contribute this time around . . . One of the best Lovecraft-inspired anthologies ever, Weirder Shadows over Innsmouth doesn't have a bad story in it. Full marks to Mr Jones and his authors for breathing new life into the subgenre, whether it be by natural methods or through the gills they hopefully haven't acquired as a result of meddling with those Weird and Shadowy things best left alone by the rest of us."
—John Llewellyn Probert
THIS IS HORROR, October 22, 2013
"All the stories that Jones has selected—once again a mix of reprints and originals—reflect some aspects of Lovecraft's original . . . The best stories in Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth prove, as those in Jones' previous compilations did, that Lovecraft's concepts of cosmic horror and the set pieces that he used to express them, continue to inspire contemporary writers working in the tradition he inaugurated nearly a century ago."
—Stefan Dziemianowicz
LOCUS, Issue 633, October 2013
"Weirder Shadows is a fine finale to the Innsmouth trilogy; a well-curated, reverent homage to one of the most influential pieces of horror fiction ever written."
—Alison Lang
RUE MORGUE #137, September 2013
"These are the kind of stories Lovecraft might have written if he had been born a generation or two later than he was."
—Don D'Ammassa
CRITICAL MASS
August 20, 2013
Photo © 2013 Paula Grainger
Randy Broecker, Stephen Jones, Nate Smith & Michael Marshall Smith
at Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth signing, World Fantasy Convention 2013, Brighton, 02.11.13
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