This is a remarkable, brilliant horror story. It’s the first thing I’ve ever read by H. P. Lovecraft but I’ve already promised myself that it won’t be the last. I cannot understand why he never became more well-known. Or maybe he did and I was just ignorant of it!

I listened to this on Spotify. It is quite an interesting story. The twist at the end was unexpected.

Warning: When you read H P. Lovecraft's stories, be alerted that Lovecraft can be such a racist sometime in such a manner:You are ugly-looking then you must be EVIL! You are old then you must be EVIL! You are deformed then you must be EVIL!You have mixed blood in you then you must be EVIL! You worship pagan gods then you must be EVIL! You befriend Indians, black people or other people of colors, then you must be EVIL!These might sound like a joke, but all of these things I mentioned above really...

I remember a survival horror game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth a couple of years ago. Only a part of the game is similar to The Shadow Over Innsmouth and it is a combination of more Lovecraft's stories, so it's not exactly the same, but I still remember how the arrival of the main character to Innsmouth, that filthy old hotel, and what happens later made me feel. Needless to say, I loved this story. I think it is one of those you could recommend to anyone who wants to try Lovecraft...

Lovecraft Illustrated Volume 5Contents:ix - Introduction by S. T. Joshixiii - Foreword by Brian Yuzna003 - "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H. P. Lovecraft091 - "The Shadow over the Shadow" by Pete Von Sholly093 - "The Harbor-Master" by Robert W. Chambers123 - "Fishhead" by Irvin S. Cobb135 - "Fish Schticks" by Robert M. Price

It was bound to happen at some point. An intense, life-long dislike for short stories and first person narrative meant that the intrigue of Lovecraft couldn't quite get me to enjoy this one.We follow an intrepid traveller, standard Lovecraft, who seemingly at random falls head first in to a weird and wonderful world full of eldritch cults, esoteric goings on and horrors (literally) too horrific to put in to writing (convenient much). He visits a town that is shunned full of weird people etc etcT...

”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those who take to the water change--and told me she had never died.”It might have been the uncertain light from the flickering fire casting deceptive shadows across my friend’s face or maybe it was the way t...

After At the Mountain of Madness, HPL is back in New England with this novelette. Once more, as in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward or The Colour Out of Space, the protagonist investigates the strange events that have been taking place in a deserted town, seemingly afflicted with a curse. In the end, he discovers some unspeakable horror, once more related to the Cthulhu and other malign divinities from space and out of the underworld.As in many other HLP stories, the descriptions of old architect...

This is the dark heart of Lovecraft fiction at its finest: secret cults, secret cities under the sea and strange mutated people- what’s not to love? The Shadow of Innsmouth depicts a fear, a fear of the unknown and a fear of the watering down of the human race. In the isolated town of Insmouth the people are degenerating into a sub-species of man. Their features are changing and their skin is becoming grey and watery: they are beginning to resemble the creatures of the deep. “One night I had a f...

After one false start, in the final months of 1931, Lovecraft completed it: the novella which embodies his two greatest fears. The most obvious of the two, the fear of immigration and miscegenation, was derived from his narrow cultural focus and his xenophobia, but the second—a microcosm of the first—the fear of individual mental and moral degeneration, resulted from a disturbing chapter of his family history. Both Lovecraft’s mother and father died confined to institutions for the insane, and h...

Not what I was expecting QUITE POPULAR BUT... This novella is one of the most popular between H.P. Lovecraft's fans, however sadly I must say that I wasn't able to enjoy the reading experience as I'd expected initially.This is part of the Cthulhu Mythos,......set in the fictional town of Innsmouth. A man who is doing a personal research about the lore and architecture of New England’s towns ending at Innsmouth,......feeling it as a kind of calling to go there.Soon enough he founds that the

The Shadow Over Innsmouth is one H.P. Lovecraft's later works - written in 1936 and published in 1936, the only of his works of fiction to be published during his lifetime - he died in 1937. Lovecraft himself disliked the story, thinking it poorly written and not suitable for publication. The first and only print run consisted of only 200 copies, filled with typographical errors, most of which were not sold. If you'd judge the book by the ineptitude of its publisher and the unrelenting negativit...

I am more or less a Lovecraft-come-lately and read Ruthanna Emrys' excellent Winter Tide without reading this first. Although I was familiar in a general way with the mythos, I had assumed that the backstory about the Innsmouth folk being interned by the US government was Emrys' interpolation -- but no, HPL says they were taken to "concentration camps," which surprised me a bit for 1927. <--not a spoiler. 1st paragraphHere is a sorta-spoiler, though; it's a question for my friends who read a lot...

Classic Lovecraft horror, perhaps the classic Lovecraft horror.Despite reading many pastiches of his work this is actually my first Lovecraft. He seems like a distasteful enough character that I haven't been rushing to read his stuff. However, I'm just about the read Winter Tide which is a sequel of sorts to this one so I thought I'd knock it off quickly.Our narrator comes to the town of Innsmouth to investigate a town in decay as well as the strange stories that he's heard about it from neighbo...

Legend has it that if you look into broken mirror and say Cthulhu fhtagn out loud three times in a row first your tongue will fall out and then you'll turn into a fish or a frog and you'll dive into the depths of the ocean to dwell there forevermore. Cool, or what?Devoted fans of H.P.Lovecraft most likely know this already, but it was new to me. Perhaps I'll try it one time, perhaps not. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.