Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth

WEIRD SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH

Print edition ISBN: 9781781165294 • E-book edition ISBN: 9781781165300

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First Titan Books edition: October 2013

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

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Copyright © 2005, 2013 by Stephen Jones

Original hardcover edition published 2005 by Fedogan & Bremer

Illustrations © 2005, 2013 by Randy Broecker, Les Edwards, Bob Eggleton and Allan Servoss

‘Introduction: Weird Shadows...’ copyright © Stephen Jones 2005, 2013.

‘Discarded Draft of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”’ copyright © August Derleth 1949. Originally published in The Acolyte, No.2, Spring 1944. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House Publishers, Inc.

‘The Quest for Y’ha-Nthlei’ copyright © John Glasby 2005.

‘Brackish Waters’ copyright © Richard A. Lupoff 2005.

‘Voices in the Water’ copyright © Basil Copper 2005.

‘Another Fish Story’ copyright © Kim Newman 2005.

‘Take Me to the River’ copyright © Paul McAuley 2005.

‘The Coming’ copyright © Hugh B. Cave 1997, 2005. Originally published in somewhat different form in Dark Dixie Anthology III. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.

‘Eggs’ copyright © Steve Rasnic Tem 2000. Originally published in City Fishing. Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘From Cabinet 34, Drawer 6’ copyright © Caitlín R. Kiernan 2005.

‘Raised by the Moon’ copyright © Ramsey Campbell 2001. Originally published in The Spook, June 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

‘Fair Exchange’ copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 2005.

‘The Taint’ copyright © Brian Lumley 2005. Afterwords: Contributors’ Notes’ copyright © Stephen Jones 2005, 2013.

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