“It would have been a crime not to use the location in a short story, especially for an anthology such as this. The epic, rugged scenery and claustrophobic nature of the fort call to much of Lovecraft’s work that I admire—an awesomeness in the wide, open skies and the unfathomable depths; the unimaginable stretches of time over which hag stones and horrors from the ocean are formed (while the old protagonist in my story appears as a mere breath in the lungs of time); and the threat of being engulfed, of beginning to understand something vast but which is nevertheless only just observable.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to Dorothy Lumley, Randy and Sara Broecker, Bob Garcia, Philip Harbottle (Cosmos Literary Agency), Danielle Hackett (Arkham House Publishers, Inc.) and, especially, Dennis E. Weiler, Steve Saffel and Natalie Laverick, along with all the contributors.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
STEPHEN JONES was born in London, England, just across the River Thames from where his hapless namesake met a grisly fate in Hazel Heald’s story ‘The Horror in the Museum’. A Hugo Award nominee, he is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three International Horror Guild Awards, four Bram Stoker Awards, twenty-one British Fantasy Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Horror Association. One of Britain’s most acclaimed horror and dark fantasy writers and editors, he has more than 130 books to his credit, including Shadows Over Innsmouth, Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth and Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror (with Dave Carson), H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural, Hallowe’en in a Suburb & Others: The Complete Poems from Weird Tales, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft and Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre, along with such author collections as The Complete Chronicles of Conan and Conan’s Brethren by Robert E. Howard and Curious Warnings: The Great Ghost Stories of M. R. James. His many anthologies include Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome, A Book of Horrors, The Mammoth Book of Vampires, the Zombie Apocalypse! series, and twenty-five volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. You can visit his website at: www.stephenjoneseditor.com
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