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“The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a story from 1931 involving a trip that goes awry, we could say. We have a character who is traveling through New England, who boards a bus and ends up in the town of Innsmouth. It’s a quintessential Lovecraft setting: an old, decaying seaport town with inscrutable characters. A dark history begins to emerge, and the revelation is that there are creatures under the sea called the deep ones, that have interbred with the human beings that lived in Innsmouth. At a certain age, people who grow up in Innsmouth then go into the water, and they go down into the deep to join the deep ones who dwell below the waves. Then there’s a twist at the end…” Read more...
Jeffrey Weinstock, Literary Scholar
