Shadows (anthology)

Shadows was a series of anthologies edited by Charles L. Grant, published by Doubleday, later Avon. Grant, a proponent of "quiet horror", initiated the series in order to offer readers a showcase of this kind of fiction. The short stories appearing in the Shadows largely dispensed with traditional Gothic settings, and had very little physical violence. Instead, they featured slow accumulations of dread through subtle omens, mostly taking place in everyday settings. While Grant himself was very adept at this kind of fiction, he contributed no stories to the anthologies, writing only the introductions and author profiles.

Anthology Contents

Shadows (First volume)

Published 1978, Doubleday:

• "Naples" Avram Davidson
• "The Little Voice" Ramsey Campbell
• "Butcher's Thumb" William Jon Watkins
• "Where All the Songs Are Sad" Thomas F. Monteleone
• "Splinters" R.A. Lafferty
• "Picture" Robert Bloch
• "The Nighthawk" Dennis Etchison
• "Dead Letters" Ramsey Campbell
• "A Certain Slant of Light" Raylin Moore
• "Deathlove" Bill Pronzini
• "Mory" Michael Bishop
• "Where Spirits Gat Them Home" John Crowley
• "Nona" Stephen King

Shadows 2

"Mackintosh Willie" Ramsey Campbell

Shadows 3

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Shadows 7

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Shadows 9

Shadows 10

== Final Shadows ==Published 1991, Avon

• "The Boarder" Wendy Webb
• "Magpie" Stephen Gallagher
• "Fastening" Julie R. Good
• "Past Tense" Brian Hodge
• "Under the Boardwalk" Lori Negridge Allen
• "The Picnickers" Brian Lumley
• "Fry Day" Melanie Tem
• "Out Behind the Shed" Bill Pronzini
• "Fear a' Ghorta" Peter Tremayne
• "The Sweetest Rain" Nancy Holder
• "Wrong Side of the Road" Norman Partridge
• "Island of the Seals" Samantha Lee
• "Thirteen Lies About Hummingbirds" Michael Bishop
• "The Stone Face" Colin Greenland
• "Medusa's Child" Kim Antieau
• "The Tape" Jessica Palmer
• "The Dark Places In Between" Karen Haber
• "I'll See You On Saturday Night" Guy N. Smith
• "Beijing Craps" Graham Masterton
• "Sarnain" Bernard Taylor
• "The Mermaid" Tanith Lee
• "Rescheduled" Mike Chinn
• "Going Away" Craig Shaw Gardner
• "A Father's Dream" Chet Williamson
• "The Magic House" Lynn S. Hightower
• "When They Gave Us Memory" Dennis Etchison
• "A Sailor's Pay" Jack Cady
• "Something About Camilla" Juleen Brantingham
• "Parallax" Nicholas Royle
• "The Door" Sharon Webb
• "Photo-Call" David Sutton
• "Against the Skin" Mark Morris
• "Of Natural Causes" Ashley McConnell
• "Mulberry's Crystal" Brian Mooney & Stephen Jones
• "Together" David S. Garnett
• "The Beautiful Uncut Hair of Graves" David Morrell