Shadows over Innsmouth

Shadows over Innsmouth by Campbell, Ramsey. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781878252180.

H.P. Lovecrafts "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is an integral part of what has become known as "The Cthulhu Mythos" and, at some 26,000 words, is one of the authors longest works. Many diverse hands have explored and enhanced Lovecrafts original concepts -- at his encouragement -- and although a number of these authors have written of the Deep Ones and their marvel-shadowed dwelling place, there has never before been an attempt to relate a fictional history of Innsmouth and its icthyoid denizens. Using Lovecrafts original novella as inspiration, the all-British contributors to this volume -- including such established masters of the genre as Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, Basil Copper, Brian Stableford, Guy N. Smith, Peter Tremayne, Michael Marshall Smith and others -- depict the dreadful decline of the decaying Massachusetts seaport since the late 1920s: through the war years, the rock n roll era, and the recent political upheavals in eastern Europe, into the modern scientific age and beyond.