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  Severvants of Tulzscha: Locations of Interest
But even fortune the cult brought in couldn't save the town.
In 1846 The Innsmouth Plague resulted in the death and half the towns population and resulted in many heriditary defects in the remaining population.
The town became a hub for booze smuggling during prohibition and in 1929 a government raid shut down not only the bootleggers, but the Esoteric Order of Dagon.
members.shaw.ca /csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/Locations.htm   (1342 words)

  
  Innsmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Innsmouth is a fictional town in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft and is also part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Innsmouth is a coastal village located in Essex County, Massachusetts, between Newburyport and Arkham.
In Newburyport there is a State Street (the street where the narrator of the story boards a bus to Innsmouth) and a State Street YMCA (where the protagonist roomed and where Lovecraft himself may have stayed during his visit to the town).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esoteric_Order_of_Dagon   (1135 words)

  
 The Shadow Over Innsmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the first chapter, the narrator begins by telling the reader that a secret investigation has recently been undertaken by the government at the ruined town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, and that the story told to them by the narrator himself is the reason for this investigation.
While he waits for the bus that will take him to Innsmouth, he busies himself in the neighboring town of Arkham by gathering information from local townsfolk; all of it with superstitious overtones.
As related in "The Thing on The Doorstep" (1937), Asenath Waite, the possessed victim of her father Ephraim Waite, is implied to be one of the hybrid/human Deep Ones and was a resident of Innsmouth before attending Miskatonic University.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth   (1113 words)

  
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Innsmouth itself was left almost depopulated, and it is even now only beginning to show signs of a sluggishly revived existence.
Her own attitude toward shadowed Innsmouth - which she never seen - was one of disgust at a community slipping far down the cultural scale, and she assured me that the rumours of devil-worship were partly justified by a peculiar secret cult which had gained force there and engulfed all the orthodox churches.
Innsmouth was rapidly becoming intolerable, and I turned down Paine Street toward the Square in the hope of getting some vehicle to take me to Arkham before the still-distant starting-time of that sinister bus.
www.k4d4th.org /pub/hpl/theshadowoverinnsmouth.txt   (24672 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Shadows Over Innsmouth
Innsmouth is a town that was once prosperous, once important, but that gradually became irrelevant to the world around it.
The narrator, in fact, has a female ancestor from Innsmouth, as he learns to his horror -- one who was married out of the town by duping the husband as to her origins.
In "Innsmouth Gold," for instance, the narrator travels to the town because of rumors of buried treasure, but winds up spending the kind of night in the swamp that almost everyone who has ever gone camping has experienced at least once.
www.sfsite.com /10b/sm114.htm   (1301 words)

  
 "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", by H.P. Lovecraft
Innsmouth fits squarely into the Cthulhu Mythos, a fictional construct of Lovecraft's which is, arguably, the earliest example of what are now called 'shared worlds'.
Her own attitude toward shadowed Innsmouth -- which she never seen -- was one of disgust at a community slipping far down the cultural scale, and she assured me that the rumours of devil-worship were partly justified by a peculiar secret cult which had gained force there and engulfed all the orthodox churches.
Undoubtedly the alien strain in the Innsmouth folk was stronger here than farther inland -- unless, indeed, the "Innsmouth look" were a disease rather than a blood stain, in which case this district might be held to harbour the more advanced cases.
tsat.xepher.net /stories/shadow.over.innsmouth.html   (23641 words)

  
 Miskatonic Valley
Since the 1840s, Innsmouth has been shunned by the surrounding community as cursed and diseased to the point of almost complete isolation.
Innsmouth was a bustling port during the War of 1812, though prosperity soon faltered after the end of the war.
In 1846, an epidemic was reported to have taken over half the population of Innsmouth, and riots and other ghastly doings were reported as well.
personal.tmlp.com /ralderman/Miskatonic.htm   (808 words)

  
 Miskatonic University
Innsmouth was a popular trading port lying on the mouth of the Manuxet River.
The natives of Innsmouth must be very proud of their town — for some reason — as they stubbornly refuse to leave the run-down dilapidated buildings.
It is said that those from Innsmouth have a queer look about them: dry grey flabby skin, little hair and bulging eyes, but in the modern day world of political correctness it is considered impolite to point this out.
www.fetefatale.com /miskatonic/miskatonic_university.htm   (611 words)

  
 Guerrilla Productions Movie Projects
It is the story of a woman desperate to escape the curse that haunts her family.
It is not a direct adaptation of Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", but takes place one generation after that tale, borrowing elements from the story.
The Innsmouth Symbol didn't quite work in this situation, because we had to leave the doors open (so there was no easy place to hang it).
www.petting-zoo.org /Movies_Innsmouth.html   (2296 words)

  
 Tourist's Guide to Innsmouth
In their generally admirable annotated edition of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (Necronomicon Press, 1994), S. Joshi and David E. Schultz cite Lovecraft's statements that the fictional town of Innsmouth is inspired by the atmospheric, decaying town of Newburyport, Mass.
But, as they also point out, Innsmouth itself is distinguished from Newburyport in the story, and is said to be located somewhere on the route from Newburyport to Arkham.
When he first glimpses Innsmouth from the north, the narrator notes the steeples and belfries of some of the major buldings, and the tendancy of increased decay toward the waterfront.
baharna.com /cmythos/innsmth.htm   (2350 words)

  
 Ben Chapman as the Creature From the Black Lagoon
During the winter of 1927-28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth.
I never heard of Innsmouth till the day before I saw it for the first and - so far - last time.
At the Y. A., where I was stopping, the clerk merely discouraged my going to such a dismal, decadent place; and the people at the library shewed much the same attitude.
www.the-reelgillman.com /trivia/innsmouth.html   (20854 words)

  
 Trip to Innsmouth - 1975 - by Tani Jantsang
Innsmouth, however, is between Arkham and Newburyport; Ipswich is further inland and both Ipswich and Rowley are north of Innsmouth.
If Innsmouth were Newark, NJ, for instance, circa 1960s, the area where you'd find all mixed blooded Deep Ones/humans would be fl/Puerto Rican/various ethnics sometimes mixed with "whites" (at the time, Wasps).
Eric Carlson and I made the original Map of Innsmouth showing every street and every single place mentioned in any original story about the town, even the numbering of houses on blocks.
www.geocities.com /trip_to_innsmouth   (1881 words)

  
 The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There certainly is a strange kind of streak in the Innsmouth forks today - I don't know how to explain it but it sort of makes you crawl.
When I had tried to question the natives in the shops, the lunchroom, the garages, and the are station, I had found them even harder to get started than the ticket agent had predicted; and realized that I could not spare the time to overcome their first instinctive reticence.
It had evidently impressed the whole countryside more thin a little, for mention was made of specimens in the museum of Miskatonic University at Arkham, and in the display room of the Newburyport Historical Society.
sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /~wcoburn/hpl/innsmouth.html   (24480 words)

  
 Innsmouth Legacy (2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Plot Outline: A woman is torn between her love for her family and the fate slated for her by her ancestors.
Emily Hayes, the actress who plays Katherine, shows quite a bit of promise portraying the woman whose heart is torn.
Innsmouth legacy includes subtitles in: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0427388   (486 words)

  
 Elder Party Convention 2000 Innsmouth Massachusetts
Cthulhu and the Élder Party are registered trademarks of Chaosium, Inc. and have been used in accordance with their copyright guidelines.
Innsmouth is the ideal example of the types of obstacles with which we have had to beat down.
Just because you couldn't be at the Innsmouth convention or the August 9-13 Midwestern event at GenCon doesn't mean your representation is not wanted.
www.stygianlabyrinth.net /ghastlyhumour/epc   (436 words)

  
 Elder Party Convention 2000 Innsmouth Massachusetts
It is offputting, to say the least, that the locals have done little to welcome the press and attention this convention has brought down to them.
Innsmouth, nothing more than a fishing village, has been bypassed by the booming economy as it was bypassed by the recessions of the past.
It has been a running joke on the way here about the 'Innsmouth look', the sort of thing one talks about in regards to inbred cultures.
www.stygianlabyrinth.net /ghastlyhumour/epc/impression.html   (598 words)

  
 Innsmouth MUD Design: Top Level
Innsmouth is a decaying Massachusetts town that hides a terrible secret.
Innsmouth MUD is inspired by the story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H. Lovecraft, and other short stories.
It was built as a test MUD for the Phantasmal MUD Library.
phantasmal.sourceforge.net /Innsmouth   (268 words)

  
 White Shadow Over Innsmouth
I never heard of Innsmouth till the day before I saw it for the first time.
Having little money in my pocket and a freshly minted degree in physical education but no wall upon which to hang it, I made it clear to all and sundry that I would teach the gentlemanly arts of baseball and the shot put to anyone in any location, provided they paid promptly.
There was a curious reticence amongst my friends and peers to discuss the bizarre residents of Innsmouth, a reticence which served only to pique my already-heightened curiosity.
www.ludickid.com /072604.htm   (1003 words)

  
 Dunwich Herald: Homeless in Innsmouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The "boys" themselves are a mixture of under-educated and unskilled labor, with exceeding drooping cheeks and large bulbous eyes, the most common look in town.
I suppose he is talking about the the amount of mercury in the fish caught by the one-time booming Innsmouth Fish Stick factory.
Still, the commitment to revelry in a town besot with homeless youth is a hearty example of the resilient backbone of the Innsmouth residents, as well as their gills.
home.comcast.net /~esox99/news_homeless.html   (500 words)

  
 eHobbies.com: Chaosium Call of Cthulhu: Escape From Innsmouth - 2371   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A century ago Innsmouth was a thriving community on the Massachusetts coast.
Now Innsmouth lies rotting, its harbor choked with sand, the town itself nearly engulfed by salt marshes.
Outsiders shun Innsmouth and its sullen, deformed inhabitants.
international.ehobbies.com /CAO2371.html   (193 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Shadows Over Innsmouth: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Stephen Jones has commandeered this challenge, corralling an impressive group of authors to edit together homages and emulations to one of Lovecraft's most redoubtable tales, "The Shadow over Innsmouth." The result is much in keeping with Lovecraft's own writings; they are by turns gripping, frustrating, brilliant, and overall, unforgettable.
Into this town comes a curious young man with an interest in architecture; what he discovers is a village who claims allegiance to the Esoteric Order of Dagon, a strange religion with more than simply surface connections to the sea.
Many of the tales are more or less sequels to Lovecraft's seminal story, set in and around Innsmouth itself, the fictional Massachusetts town the author first "sailed" the concept in.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345444078   (1425 words)

  
 Shadows over Innsmouth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This volume collects short stories, for the most part recent, detailing the survival of Innsmouth's progeny.
That the volume is focused on Innsmouth is a drawback; there is little surprise in learning that the Deep Ones are involved in the plot.
However, none of the stories relies on this kind of shock for its effect, and many of them offer fresh new looks at the Deep Ones, some interpreting their very nature differently.
www.bass.org /~cthulhu/soi.htm   (246 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The second is a preliminary scenario, introducing the investigators to Innsmouth.
Back at the end of the book, there are about 20 small Innsmouth Ideas (or something like that), which are hooks for adventures in and around Innsmouth, easily enough to stage an entire Innsmouth campaign.
By far the largest section in the book is the third: the story of the assault on Innsmouth in 1928 by combined US forces.
pages.prodigy.net /gobackstage/chaos-digest-issues/chaos-digest-v02n05.txt   (3821 words)

  
 Return to Innsmouth video offer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Miskatonic graduate student Robert Olmstead confronts this qustion when he stumbleds apon the ancient, evil-shrouded town of Innsmouth.
As he learns the town's secret history, Robert discovers that the Innsmouth taintin his blood is a curse.
A curse that is slowly transforming him into a monsterous immortal slave beholden to ancient alien gods.
www.miskatonic.net /rtivideo.htm   (148 words)

  
 The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Screenwriter Rob Hinderstein has informed me that he is finishing the final rewrite on the Shadow Over Innsmouth script.
The rights to The Shadow Over Innsmouth have been acquired by Hindsight Partners LLC and Rob Hinderstein has scripted a big-budget film adaptation from the material.
The script is a present day adaptation that follows closely the story lore and history.
www.unfilmable.com /ShadowOverInnsmouth.html   (410 words)

  
 Return to Innsmouth - The Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Recently, he has used his skills to edit the "Innsmouth" screenplay and administer psychoactive medication to Aaron Vanek when necessary.
Mike's experience in film is minimal, but this has not stopped him from acting in several films made by friends.
He can't wait for the "Innsmouth Look" to become the newest fashion trend....
www.miskatonic.net /innsmouth/players.htm   (465 words)

  
 Return to Innsmouth, an Interview with Andrew Migliore
Return to Innsmouth is a portrayal of The Shadow over Innsmouth produced by Andrew Migliore of Beyond Books.
How did you get involved with "Return to Innsmouth?" Give us a quick history of the film's concept and how it was brought to life.
Aaron had just been re-reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth and was struck by the last paragraph where it states that Robert was not going to kill himself but instead was going to free his cousin from the Canton Asylum and return to Innsmouth.
www.netherreal.de /library/innsmouth   (1467 words)

  
 Innsmouth High Swim Team T-shirt
Show off your school colors (along with your gill slits) with the HPLHS Innsmouth High School Swim Team Shirt.
You'll be shunned along all the beaches of New England as you stroll about in this sporty ichthyic garment.
Shirt is mossy green with dark green collar and cuffs.
www.cthulhulives.org /store/store.lasso?1=product&2=20   (68 words)

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