Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror is an anthology of short stories and poetry edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward. It was first published in 2015.
Description[]
What happens when idyllic small-towns, and the simple folk who inhabit them, collide with inexplicable evil borne of a vast and uncaring cosmos?
Imagine a series of stories set in a golden era of American life, where worldly troubles are regarded from a distance, if at all. Hear the buzz of playing cards clipped in children’s spokes echo down quiet lanes. Smell the faint aroma of rich tobacco smoke from an old man’s pipe on a shady boulevard. Listen to the gossip of small towns where everyone knows everyone’s business. Or do they?
Sometimes, deadly secrets lurk out in the barn. Sometimes, unimaginable evil awaits us in the root cellar. Sometimes, we fall under the sway of the Shadows Over Main Street.
Contains stories and poems by: Gary Braunbeck, Nick Mamatas, Josh Malerman, Mary SanGiovanni, Tim Curran, Rena Mason, Lucy A. Snyder, Stephanie Wytovich, Kevin Lucia, Chesya Burke, Brian Hodge, James Chambers, Aaron Polson, T. Fox Dunham, Richard Thomas, Adrian Ludens, Cameron Suey, Lisa Morton, Jay Wilburn, and John Sunseri.
Contents[]
- The 21st Century Shadow by Stephanie M. Wytovich
- Χταπόδι Σαλάτα by Nick Mamatas
- The Black Pyramid by Kevin Lucia
- Mountaintown by Chesya Burke
- This Stagnant Breath of Change by Brian Hodge
- The Floodgates of Willowhill by Mary SanGiovanni
- Odd Quahogs by James Chambers
- The Thing with a Thousand Legs by Tim Curran
- Undergrounders by Aaron Polson
- The Flesh of the Father by T. Fox Dunham
- White Picket Fences by Richard Thomas
- The Friendless Bodies of Unburied Men by Gary A. Braunbeck
- Estranged by Adrian Ludens
- Red Hill by Rena Mason
- The Abomination of Fensmere by Lucy A. Snyder
- The Crisis by Cameron Suey
- A Fiddlehead Party on Carpenter's Farm by Josh Malerman
- The Ogre by Lisa Morton
- Boss Cthulhu by Jay Wilburn
- Homecoming by John Sunseri