{"id":998,"date":"2018-04-03T00:14:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/?p=998"},"modified":"2018-04-03T00:14:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T00:14:20","slug":"award-nominated-story-in-shadows-over-main-street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/award-nominated-story-in-shadows-over-main-street-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Nominated Story in Shadows Over Main Street 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shadows-Over-Main-Street-2-ebook\/dp\/B075SD2VDY\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522713755&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=shadows+over+main+street+2&amp;dpID=61R9n0PNOlL&amp;preST=_SY445_QL70_&amp;dpSrc=srch\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shadows-Over-Main-Street-2-ebook\/dp\/B075SD2VDY\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522713755&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=shadows+over+main+street+2&amp;dpID=61R9n0PNOlL&amp;preST=_SY445_QL70_&amp;dpSrc=srch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1002 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StokerBallot_ShortFiction_2018-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StokerBallot_ShortFiction_2018-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StokerBallot_ShortFiction_2018-768x543.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StokerBallot_ShortFiction_2018-1024x725.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/StokerBallot_ShortFiction_2018.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Shadows Over Main Street 2<\/em><\/a>, edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward, is still on sale! This collection of horror stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and set in small-town America includes fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Braunbeck, John F.D. Taff, Lucy Snyder, Erinn Kemper, and many others, including my Bram Stoker Award nominated story, &#8220;A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Jack Kerouac&#8217;s years spent living in Northport on Long Island, &#8220;Aztake Hills,&#8221; blends literary history, the Lovecraftian mythos, and 1960s counter-culture in haunting vision of cosmic horror hidden in the shadows of a small town.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1001\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20171229_142753.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20171229_142753-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20171229_142753-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20171229_142753-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/20171229_142753-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gunther&#8217;s Tap Room, Northport, NY, the inspiration for Raker&#8217;s in the fictional town of Knicksport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shadows-Over-Main-Street-2-ebook\/dp\/B075SD2VDY\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522713755&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=shadows+over+main+street+2&amp;dpID=61R9n0PNOlL&amp;preST=_SY445_QL70_&amp;dpSrc=srch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-965 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SOMS2-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SOMS2-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/SOMS2.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>Shadows Over Main Street 2<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Turns out you\u00a0can\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>\u00a0bring you Volume 2 of their best selling, critically-acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian anthology series. Within these pages, you&#8217;ll discover:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>America&#8217;s pastime awakening dark secrets buried deep within the earth. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Vietnam War heroes who glimpse something worse than war and return home to discover a new kind of hell waiting for them.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The music of a generation\u2014of many generations\u2014revealed as something older, hungrier and more insidious than a bad acid trip.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A war-widow who rediscovers love and passion\u2026 only to cultivate the world\u2019s end.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-946\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SOMS2_Aztakea_Spooner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SOMS2_Aztakea_Spooner-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SOMS2_Aztakea_Spooner-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SOMS2_Aztakea_Spooner.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration for &#8220;A Song Left Behind in the Aztakea Hills,&#8221; by Luke Spooner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadows Over Main Street 2, edited by Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward, is still on sale! This collection of horror stories inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and set in small-town America includes fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Braunbeck, John F.D. Taff, Lucy Snyder, Erinn Kemper, and many others, including my Bram &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/award-nominated-story-in-shadows-over-main-street-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Award-Nominated Story in Shadows Over Main Street 2&#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":[59,4],"tags":[124,118,85],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-news","tag-bram-stoker-award","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-shadows-over-main-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}