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	The Shadow Over Innsmouth
		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.the-reelgillman.com /trivia/innsmouth.html (20075 words)

	Innsmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Innsmouth is a fictional town in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Lovecraft Country setting of the Cthulhu Mythos.
		Lovecraft placed Innsmouth on the coast of Essex County, Massachusetts, south of Plum Island and north of Cape Ann.
		The town of Ipswich, Massachusetts is said to be a near neighbor, where many Innsmouth residents do their shopping; Rowley, Massachusetts, another neighboring town, is said to be to the northwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Innsmouth (1472 words)

	Innsmouth
		The town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was founded in 1643 at the mouth of the Manuxet River.
		The war cost Innsmouth at least half of its sailors, putting a nail in the coffin of the town’s early prosperity.
		Degenerative traits began to surface in the children of Innsmouth, blamed on the plague.
	www.angelfire.com /games5/deltagreen/DarkPlaces/Innsmouth/Innsmouth.html (627 words)

	Dagon
		This story is one of Lovecraft's best known ones as it introduced the Deep Ones, a race of water-breathing humanoids, servants to Dagon and Cthulhu.
		This story also introduced their undersea city of Y'ha-nthlei[?] and the port town of Innsmouth[?], Massachusetts, USA, mainly populated by these hybrids.
		Innsmouth has often been the setting of this stories.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/da/Dagon.html (431 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.transform.to /stories/shadow.over.innsmouth.html (23641 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)

	H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia Article @ Pining.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Physical and mental degradation often come together; this theme of 'tainted blood' may represent concerns relating to Lovecraft's own family history, particularly the death of his father due to what Lovecraft must have suspected to be a Robert E. Howard disorder.
		Massachusetts has at present issued three volumes of Lovecraft's works: Berne Convention, platonic love,, and most recently edit.
		Innsmouth (2000) is based on the short stories "Call of Cthulhu" and "The Dunwich Horror".
	www.pining.org /encyclopedia/H._P._Lovecraft (6822 words)

	Miskatonic Valley
		The flood of 1888 and the cholera outbreak of 1905 led to a serious decline in the town's fortunes, but mostly due to the revenue generated by the University, Arkham was able to recover and flourish until the disastrous storm and flood of 1980, which destroyed most of the town.
		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.
	personal.tmlp.com /ralderman/Miskatonic.htm (808 words)

	The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		I thought of those very extreme Innsmouth types said to be hidden in crumbling, centuried warrens near the waterfront; I thought, too, of those nameless swimmers I had seen.
		The fishy odour, too, was gone, Innsmouth's ruined roofs and toppling steeples loomed up greyly toward the southeast, but not a living creature did I spy in all the desolate salt marshes around.
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /~wcoburn/hpl/innsmouth.html (24480 words)

	Call of Cthulhu Campaign
		Specimens of Innsmouth jewelry are known to be on display at the Newburyport Historical Society and the Miskatonic University Exhibition Museum in Arkham.
		According to the university, the specimens were sold to the museum in 1844 by a seaman from the Marsh family vessel, the Sumatra Queen.
		Innsmouth was first founded in the 1600’s by four prominent families from nearby Newbury.
	www.freewebs.com /coc-campaign/arkhamadvertiser2.htm (1901 words)

	Innsmouth - KQ Omnipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Innsmouth is a town in the Other World.
		Innsmouth was the name of two fictional towns in a couple of of H.P. Lovecraft's stories.
		The most famous Innsmouth and the source of the concept of the fish-like mutants was in Massachusetts.
	www.sq7.org /KQ/index.php/Innsmouth (117 words)

	SILENCE IS GOLDEN
		West of Arkham in north central Massachusetts there is a flooded valley of the Miskatonic River known since the 1930s as Lake Pearce.
		After the fishing stocks of Innsmouth became depleted and the townsfolk had become dissatisfied with their local preachers, Obediah came forward with new ideas and new ways of doing things.
		The Innsmouth Historical Society, meeting at the Innsmouth Public Library, have recently tried to portray Ephraim as a victim of surviving Puritan-style anti-pagan bias - citing Ephraim's known proclivities for frankly pagan practices as proof.
	www.piscesallmedia.com /golden/sigaz.html (2985 words)

	The Innsmouth Raid of 1928@Everything2.com
		Back in the late 1800s to early 1900s, Obed Marsh, a wealthy merchant, was converted to the worship of a pagan god of the sea while sailing in the South Seas.
		Upon his return to his home in the small coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, he established a church called the Esoteric Order of Dagon.
		Within a few years, most of the residents of Innsmouth were members of Marsh's church, thanks to a combination of Marsh's charisma, the gold he brought from the South Sea, and peer pressure from other church members.
	www.everything2.com /index.pl?node_id=529242 (390 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman of jewelry and precious metals, and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, a woman who could trace her ancestry in America back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
		Physical and mental degradation often come together; this theme of 'tainted blood' may represent concerns relating to Lovecraft's own family history, particularly the death of his father due to what Lovecraft must have suspected to be a syphilitic disorder.
		Danvers State Hospital, in Danvers, Massachusetts, which is largely believed to have served as inspiration for the infamous Arkham sanitarium from "The Thing on the Doorstep".
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=H._P._Lovecraft (7953 words)

	www.myspace.com/lovecraftinfo
		Dunwich, Massachusetts (pronounced Dunn-ich) is a fictional town in the works of H. Lovecraft, most notably in the short story "The Dunwich Horror" (1929).
		Innsmouth is a coastal village located in Essex County, Massachusetts, between Newburyport and Arkham.
		The town is located on the coast of Massachusetts to the south of Arkham, another fictional place, and is based on Marblehead, Massachusetts, a real town that lies south of Salem.
	www.myspace.com /lovecraftinfo (6508 words)

	Arkham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The precise location of Arkham is; unknown, although it is probably near both Innsmouth and Dunwich.
		However, it may be surmised from Lovecraft's stories that it is some distance to the north of Boston, probably in Essex County, Massachusetts.
		Will Murray places Arkham in central Massachusetts and suggests that it is based on the small village of Oakham.
	www.anonymousproxy.co.za /wiki/Arkham (1523 words)

	Dagon - Ogre Wiki
		Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds....
		Once I sought out a celebrated ethnologist, and amused him with peculiar questions regarding the ancient Philistine legend of Dagon, the Fish-God; but soon perceiving that he was hopelessly conventional, I did not press my inquiries.
		There is also a Dagon movie from 2001, inspired by the "Shadow Over Innsmouth" story by H.P. Lovecraft, information can be found [here] (be warned, spoilers be there).
	www.ogre3d.org /wiki/index.php/Dagon (251 words)

	Amazon.ca: Shadows Over Innsmouth: Books: Stephen Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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 /Shadows-Over-Innsmouth-Stephen-Jones/dp/0345444078 (1583 words)

	The Cthulhu Lexicon - The I's
		The citizens of Innsmouth suffe a strange malady which brings about the Innsmouth look and ultimately drives those afflicted into total reclusion.
		In 1846, an epidimic was reported to have taken over half the population of Innsmouth, and riots and other ghastly doings were reported as well.
		In actuality, the epidimic was a cover-up for an attack by the Deep Ones on Innsmouth after going too long without human sacrifices.
	members.tripod.com /NetherReal2/library/lex_entry/i1.htm (745 words)

	Arkham Information
		The precise location of Arkham is unknown, although it is probably near both Innsmouth and Dunwich.
		However, it may be surmised from Lovecraft's stories that it is some distance to the north of Boston, probably in Essex County, Massachusetts.
		The real-life model for Arkham seems to be, in fact, Salem, its reputation for the occult making it appealing to one who dabbles in the weird tale.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Arkham (1178 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2001025986
		The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting--under suitable precautions--of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront.
		I was willing enough to stay mute while the affair was fresh and uncertain; but now that it is an old story, with public interest and curiosity gone, 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.
		There certainly is a strange kind of streak in the Innsmouth folks today--I don't know how to explain it, but it sort of makes you crawl.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random044/2001025986.html (2294 words)

	Reach for yuh genealogical charts, stranger!
		Shlomo raised his children in a faith of his own, a bastardization of Judaism and the local faith, and so for the purposes of this article the Simpsons will be considered a separate branch of the B----- family.
		In 1675 the Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts were finally provoked beyond reason by the persistent proselytizing of John Eliot among the Cape Cod Indians; the Wampanoags saw Eliot’s actions as an attack on their power.
		It might be said in his defense that the death of his father at the beginning of the war gave him greater incentive to kill the enemy than many of the whites and natives who fought in the war.
	ratmmjess.tripod.com /wold3.html (4832 words)

	Alibris: 9781568821153
		Light wear.; 172 pages; "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.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/isbn/1568821158 (129 words)

	Archie Comics' TMNT Adventures #27
		A chemical company in Innsmouth, Massachusetts is illegally dumping toxic waste by paying two men to load their truck full of the muck and pouring it out in the hilltowns of the state.
		O'Neil is in the middle of nowhere, but notices that Innsmouth should be within walking distance.
		After a very long trek, April is found by an Innsmouth police officer, who takes her to the station.
	www.ninjaturtles.com /comics/archie/27/27.htm (724 words)

	Four Fat Chicks -- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Review
		A short time after you begin questioning the locals, all hell breaks loose, and your life is in danger throughout the remainder of the game.
		In a game filled with interesting characters, Hoover stands out as exactly as crazy as you think he might have been while still holding it together enough to build the F.B.I. into the monolithic federal police force that it is now.
		Especially noteworthy is the way the denizens of Innsmouth present more guttural sounding voices as the story progresses.
	www.fourfatchicks.com /Reviews/Call_of_Cthulhu/Dark_Corners.shtml (3322 words)

	Delta Green - Campaign - Personnel Records - J.Edgar Hoover, FBI Director (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The darkest night of Hoover's life is often thought to have been the night his mother died in 1938, but actually occurred in the winter of 1927/1928, when he personally led a raid on the Marsh refinery in Innsmouth, Massachusetts, during the Navy's Project COVENANT.
		Hoover was there to provide the legal authority required to seize the suspected subversives, and of course, to personally make his mark in the war against liquor.
		Of course, the wretched inhabitants of Innsmouth proved to be something far, far worse than mere bootleggers.
	home.comcast.net /~furrylogic/hoover.html (1330 words)

	JOYCE CAROL OATES : TALES OF H.P. LOVECRAFT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In attempting to defeat time, such protagonists are defeated by it; they may discover to their horror, or mad glee, that they are in fact related genetically ("by blood") to monster-ancestors and that these ancestors live in them.
		The ponderous, meandering yet riveting long story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" ends with the student-hero turning by degrees into a subhuman Innsmouth being (a sort of humanoid fish, or fishy humanoid), as one might succumb to madness.
		Investigating the ancient seaport of Innsmouth, repulsed by its inhabitants, the young man pushes too far: "This was the dream in which I saw a shoggoth for the first time, and the sight set me awake in a frenzy of screaming.
	www.usfca.edu /~southerr/lovecraft.html (3298 words)

	The King of Weird - The New York Review of Books
		The more radical Puritans, "Separatists" and eventually "Pilgrims," settled Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the 1620s; others who followed in subsequent years were less zealous about defining themselves as "Separatists." Yet all were characterized by the intransigence of their faith; their fierce sense of moral rectitude and self-righteousness.
		The ponderous, meandering, yet fascinating long story "Shadow Over Innsmouth" ends with the student-hero turning by degrees into a subhuman Innsmouth being (a sort of humanoid fish, or fishy humanoid), as one might succumb to madness.
		Certain of Lovecraft's tales, notably "Shadow Over Innsmouth" with its debased, subhuman race of fishy-reptile folk with staring, unblinking eyes, are clearly paranoid fantasies of miscegenation.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/1376 (4888 words)

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