Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth

WEIRDER SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH

Print edition ISBN: 9781783291311

E-book edition ISBN: 9781783291328

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Copyright © Stephen Jones 2013, 2015

Illustrations © Randy Broecker 2013, 2015

Originally published by Fedogan & Bremer

‘Introduction: Weirder Shadows …’ copyright © Stephen Jones 2013, 2015.

‘The Port’ by H.P. Lovecraft. Originally published in Driftwind Vol. 5, No. 3, November 1930.

‘Innsmouth Bane’ copyright © John Glasby 2005. Originally published in H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror. Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 2005. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.

‘Richard Riddle, Boy Detective in “The Case of the French Spy”’ copyright © Kim Newman 2005.

Originally published in Adventure Vol. 1. Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘Innsmouth Clay’ copyright © August Derleth 1971. Originally published in Dark Things.

Reprinted by permission of Arkham House Publishers Inc.

‘The Archbishop’s Well’ copyright © Reggie Oliver 2013.

‘You Don’t Want to Know’ copyright © Adrian Cole 2013.

‘Fish Bride’ copyright © Caitlín R. Kiernan 2009. Originally published in Sirenia Digest No. 42,

May 2009. Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘The Hag Stone’ copyright © Conrad Williams 2013.

‘On the Reef ’ copyright © Caitlín R. Kiernan 2010. Originally published in Sirenia Digest No. 59,

October 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘The Song of Sighs’ copyright © Angela Slatter 2013.

‘The Same Deep Waters as You’ copyright © Brian Hodge 2013.

‘The Winner’ copyright © Ramsey Campbell 2005. Originally published in Taverns of the Dead.

Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘The Transition of Elizabeth Haskings’ copyright © Caitlín R. Kiernan 2012. Originally

published in Sirenia Digest No. 74, January 2012. Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘The Chain’ copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 2013.

‘Into the Water’ copyright © Simon Kurt Unsworth 2013.

‘Rising, Not Dreaming’ copyright © Angela Slatter 2011. Originally published in Innsmouth Free

Press No. 3, February 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘The Long Last Night’ copyright © Brian Lumley 2012, 2013. Originally published in different form in Weird Tales No. 360, Fall 2012. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent.

‘Afterword: Contributors’ Notes’ copyright © Stephen Jones 2013, 2015.

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