Deze serie duikt in duistere diepten waar de realiteit vervaagt en oeroude verschrikkingen ontwaken. Het verkent corruptie, verval en de sinistere geheimen die zich schuilhouden onder het oppervlak van schijnbaar gewone plaatsen. Elke aflevering ontrafelt weer een laag psychologische angst en kosmische hopeloosheid, waardoor lezers volkomen verbijsterd achterblijven. Fans van Lovecraftiaanse horror zullen de exploratie van occulte rituelen en ontmoetingen met het onbegrijpelijke waarderen.
Inspired by H P Lovecraft's classic, this title features today's masters of horror who take up their pens and turn once more to that decayed, forsaken New England fishing village with its sparkling treasure, loathsome denizens, and unspeakable evil. It features seventeen stories by authors such as Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman.
A collection of twelve stories by some of the world's most prominent Lovecraftian authors, including H P Lovecraft himself, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Michael Marshall Smith, John Glasby, Paul McAuley, Steve Rasnic Tem, Caitlin R Kiernan, Brian Lumley, Basil Copper, Hugh B Cave, and Richard Lupoff.
Few tales have affected writers the way The Shadow Over Innsmouth inspires the authors of today. With its pervasive sense of otherness, that malignant essence that horrifies us to the core, it continues to hold us in its grasp some eight decades after it first appeared.Once again, acclaimed editor Stephen Jones gathers together the finest acolytes of Lovecraftian fiction. Seventeen magnificent works transfix us with their accounts of cosmic horror, including two contributions by the master himself.