{"id":964,"date":"2017-10-16T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-10-13T17:28:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T17:28:59","slug":"new-release-small-town-lovecraftian-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/new-release-small-town-lovecraftian-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW RELEASE: Small-Town Lovecraftian Horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce the publication of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shadows-Over-Main-Street-2\/dp\/0996115994\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1507914359&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=shadows+over+main+street+2\"><em>Shadows Over Main Street 2<\/em><\/a>, edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward, which includes my story &#8220;A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills.&#8221; In small-town Knicksport on the Long Island Sound, an iconic American author encounters a Lovecraftian reality, an experience that resonates in the life of a local painter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SOMS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-965\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SOMS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SOMS2.jpg 643w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SOMS2-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You know this place. Seems normal enough. But you know better, don\u2019t you? You&#8217;ve heard rumors of strange histories. You&#8217;ve seen hints of dark deeds. Turns out you\u00a0<i>can<\/i>\u00a0go home again, and the shadows will be waiting for you.\u00a0<b>Bram Stoker Award<\/b>\u00ae nominated editors\u00a0<b>Doug Murano<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>D. Alexander Ward<\/b>bring you the next installment of their best selling, critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian anthology series:\u00a0<i>Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 2<\/i>. Within these pages, you&#8217;ll discover: * America&#8217;s pastime awakening dark secrets buried deep within the earth. * Vietnam War heroes who glimpse something worse than war and return home to discover a new kind of hell waiting for them. * The music of a generation\u2014of many generations\u2014revealed as something older, hungrier and more insidious than a bad acid trip. * A war-widow who rediscovers love and passion\u2026 only to cultivate the world\u2019s end. Featuring stories by:\u00a0<b>Joyce Carol Oates<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Joe R. Lansdale<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Gary A. Braunbeck<\/b>,\u00a0<b>John F.D. Taff<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Lucy A. Snyder<\/b>, <strong>James Chambers, Erinn L. Kemper, Michael Wehunt, Suzanne Madron,\u00a0<\/strong><b>William Meikle<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Ronald Malfi<\/b>,\u00a0<b>Damien Angelica Walters<\/b><strong>, Max Booth III, C.W. LaSart, Eden Royce, Jay Wilburn, <\/strong>and<strong> Douglas Wynne<\/strong>. With a foreword by\u00a0<b>Laird Barron<\/b>\u00a0and stunning illustrations by\u00a0<b>Luke Spooner<\/b>. Every turn you take leads back to Main Street. We&#8217;ve been waiting. Welcome home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce the publication of Shadows Over Main Street 2, edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward, which includes my story &#8220;A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills.&#8221; In small-town Knicksport on the Long Island Sound, an iconic American author encounters a Lovecraftian reality, an experience that resonates in the life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/new-release-small-town-lovecraftian-horror\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NEW RELEASE: Small-Town Lovecraftian Horror!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[118,84,121,85],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-knicksport","tag-shadows","tag-shadows-over-main-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}