Questa serie si addentra in oscure profondità dove la realtà si sfuma e antichi orrori si risvegliano. Esplora la corruzione, il decadimento e i sinistri segreti che si nascondono sotto la superficie di luoghi apparentemente ordinari. Ogni puntata svela un altro strato di terrore psicologico e disperazione cosmica, lasciando i lettori in uno stato di totale sconcerto. Gli amanti dell'orrore lovecraftiano apprezzeranno l'esplorazione di rituali occulti e incontri con l'incomprensibile.
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.
Inspiriert von H. P. Lovecrafts klassischer Erzählung Der Schatten über Innsmouth wagen sich 16 moderne Meister des Schreckens noch einmal an die Küste New Englands in das verfluchte Fischerdorf Innsmouth mit seinen abscheulichen, nicht ganz menschlichen Bewohnern ....§§Inhalt: Stephen Jones: Vorwort: Die Saat der Tiefen Wesen - H. P. Lovecraft: Der Schatten über Innsmouth - Basil Copper: Das Geheimnis von Innsmouth - Jack Yeovil: Der große Fisch - Guy N. Smith: Rückkehr nach Innsmouth - Adrian Cole: Die Kreuzung - D. F. Lewis: Bis auf die Stiefel - Ramsey Campbell: Die Kirche in der High Street - David Sutton: Innsmouths Gold - Peter Tremayne: Daoine Domhain - Kim Newman: Viertel vor Drei - Brian Mooney: Die Gruft der Priscus -§Brian Stableford: Das Innsmouth-Syndrom - Nicholas Royle: Die Heimkehr - David Langford: Unergründlich - Michael Marshall Smith: Blick aufs Meer - Brian Lumley: Dagons Glocke - Neil Gaiman: Nur mal wieder das Ende der Welt§§Stephen King: 'Der größte Horrorautor des 20. Jahrhunderts ist H. P. Lovecraft daran gibt es keinen Zweifel.'§§Clive Barker: 'Lovecrafts Werk bildet die Grundlage des modernen Horrors.'§§Markus Heitz: 'Die zahlreichen Geschichten rund um den Cthulhu-Mythos beinhalten für mich bis heute enorme Kraft und Wirkung ...'
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.