Shadows over Innsmouth
English Fantasy fiction, Paranormal fiction, English Horror tales, Harbors, Fiction
Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Jones, Kim Newman, Basil Copper, Brian Lumley, Peter Berresford Ellis, David Langford, D. F. Lewis, David Sutton, Neil Gaiman, Guy N. Smith, Adrian Cole, Nicholas Royle, Brian Stableford, H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Mooney, Michael Marshall Smith
Ramsey Campbell (born in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets. - Wikipedia || English editor and author || **Peter Berresford Ellis** is a British historian, literary biographer, and novelist who has published over 98 books to date either under his own name or his pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. He has also published 100 short stories. Under Peter Tremayne, he is the author of the international bestselling Sister Fidelma historical mystery series. His work has appeared in 25 languages.

(pen name used by Peter Berresford Ellis - also writes as Peter MacAlan) (re: Bram Stoker) || David Ambrose Sutton born in Birmingham, England, on October 5, 1947, is a horror/weird fantasy writer and author who sometimes publishes under David Sutton, and sometimes David A. Sutton. || Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008). In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. || Smith was born in Hopwas, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. His mother was a pre-war historical novelist (E. M. Weale).  Smith was first published at the age of 12 in the Tettenhall *Observer.* Between 1952-57 he wrote 56 stories for them. His father was a bank manager and Smith was destined for banking from birth. Guns and shooting became another early interest.  In 1961 he designed and made a 12-bore shotgun, intending to follow it up with six more. During 1960-67 he operated a small shotgun cartridge loading business.  During this time, he wrote regularly for most of the sporting magazines, interspersed with fiction for such magazines as the legendary London Mystery Selection, a quarterly anthology.  In 1972 he launched a second hand bookselling business which eventually became Black Hill Books, which still operates today.  In 1974 he published his first horror novel, *Werewolf by Moonlight*, but it was the bestselling *Night of the Crabs* in 1976 which really launched him as a writer of paperback horror originals. Amicus bought the film rights to *Crabs* in 1976, released as *Island Claws* in 1981 (albeit with no credit to Smith). The sale, however, gave Smith the chance to leave banking and support himself full-time by writing, spawning five sequels to *Night of the Crabs*, and was followed by another 60 or so horror novels through to the mid-1990's, spanning all genres including crime and mystery (as Gavin Newman), children's animal novels (as Jonathan Guy), a series of novelizations of popular Disney animated films including *Song of the South* and *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,* a series of softcore erotic novels under various pseudonyms, and numerous how-to books devoted to fishing, shooting, animal identification, and other matters of practical gamekeeping.

Smith lived with his wife Jean. Together they had four adult children, Rowan, Tara, Gavin and Angus. A lifelong pipe-smoker, Smith won the British pipe-smoking championship in 2003, collected pipes and smoking ephemera, and wrote a book on tobacco. 

Smith died due to complications of COVID-19, at the age of 81. || Brian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He has also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for a couple of very early works, and again for a few more recent works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work. || Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. 
After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. He then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". They introduced him to Weird Tales, which would become his most prominent publisher. Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions. He returned to Providence in 1926 and produced some of his most popular works, including *The Call of Cthulhu*, *At the Mountains of Madness*, *The Shadow over Innsmouth* and *The Shadow Out of Time*. 
He would remain active as a writer for 11 more years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46. 

From Wikipedia.