Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth

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FOLLOWING ON FROM the World Fantasy Award-nominated Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994) and Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (2005), this third volume was intended to conclude a loosely connected trilogy of anthologies inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella.

As readers of the previous volumes will be aware, it has been far from plain sailing. After the trials and tribulations involved in getting the first book published, I had hoped that the follow-up volume would have found a ready and enthusiastic audience. Unfortunately, due to a number of reasons beyond my control, that did not happen.

After having turned out a number of worthwhile and beautiful books from the late 1980s onwards, by the beginning of the new century publisher Fedogan & Bremer was starting to struggle. Despite producing a number of new titles by Hugh B. Cave, Donald Wandrei and Howard Wandrei in the early 2000s, along with a new “Cthulhu” anthology edited by Robert M. Price, the money was no longer coming in as regularly as it had once been. The economics of book-selling were already beginning to change, and for a small operation such as Fedogan & Bremer, this meant that it had wait longer and longer for payment for bookstores and dealers, with the inevitable result that there was not always enough money to invest in new projects.

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