[Shadows Over Main Street 01] • Shadows Over Main Street · An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror

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.

Come inside and sit for a spell…

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Foreword by Ramsey Campbell.

Cover illustration by Luke Spooner.

Interior illustrations by Paul Carrick, Vincent Chong, John Coulthart, Galen Dara and M. Fersner.

**Table of Contents:**

(Alphabetical by author name)

Gary Braunbeck, The Friendless Bodies of Unburied Men

Chesya Burke, Mountaintown

James Chambers, Odd Quahogs

Tim Curran, The Thing with a Thousand Legs

T. Fox Dunham, The Flesh or the Father

Brian Hodge, This Stagnant Breath of Change

Kevin Lucia, The Black Pyramid

Adrian Ludens, Estranged

Josh Malerman, A Fiddlehead Party on Carpenter’s Farm

Nick Mamatas, Χταπόδι Σαλάτα

Rena Mason, Red Hill

Lisa Morton, The Ogre

Aaron Polson, Undergrounders

Mary SanGiovanni, The Floodgates of Willow Hill

Lucy A. Snyder, The Abomination of Fensmere

Cameron Suey, The Crisis

John Sunseri, Homecoming

Richard Thomas, White Picket Fences

Jay Wilburn, Boss Cthulhu

Stephanie Wytovich, The 21st Century Shadow