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.



Foreword: Lovecraft’s Longest Shadow by Ramsey Campbell

The 21st Century Shadow – Stephanie Wytovich

Χταπόδι Σαλάτα – Nick Mamatas

The Black Pyramid – Kevin Lucia

Mountaintown – Chesya Burke

This Stagnant Breath of Change – Brian Hodge

The Floodgates of Willowhill – Mary SanGiovanni

Odd Quahogs – James Chambers

The Thing with a Thousand Legs – Tim Curran

Undergrounders – Aaron Polson

The Flesh or the Father – T. Fox Dunham

White Picket Fences – Richard Thomas

The Friendless Bodies of Unburied Men – Gary Braunbeck

Estranged – Adrian Ludens

Red Hill – Rena Mason

The Abomination of Fensmere – Lucy A. Snyder

The Crisis – Cameron Suey

The Ogre – Lisa Morton

Boss Cthulhu – Jay Wilburn

Homecoming – John Sunseri

A Fiddlehead Party on Carpenter’s Farm - Josh Malerman



Cover art by Luke Spooner. Interior illustrations from Paul Carrick, Vincent Chong, John Coulthart, Galen Dara and HagCult.



Edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward