6/30/2023 0 Comments The shadow of innsmouth![]() I have an odd craving to whisper about those few frightful hours in that ill-rumoured and evilly shadowed seaport of death and blasphemous abnormality. In the beginning, the character tells us this The first part, which I’m calling sucked in, sets up Innsmouth, and we see the unnamed main character drawn to the place. ![]() But the internal story is the truly terrifying thing. The external story here is a young man traveling to a decaying seaport town in New England, finding that it is populated by people who have been mating with fish creatures in the deep, and barely escapes with his life. This story is more conventionally structured than Call of Cthulhu, which I’ve done a previous video on and it, involves real jeopardy for the protagonist’s body and soul. I think you read those two and you get the man at his best. Written in 1931, The Shadow over Innsmouth is tied with At the Mountains of Madness for my Favorite Lovecraft story. It's a thing that you feel when you read it, but I'm not going to settle for feelings. It's one of Lovecraft's finest, and the unique way all the elements come together at the end is amazing. To reveal the techniques that make this story, and cosmic horror, work. Today I'm going to take you through Shadow Over Innsmouth. ![]()
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