The Shadow over Innsmouth - H. P. Lovecraft
Public domain
Category: Novel
Narrator: Richard Coyle
Tags: Novel, Horror, Fantasy, Adults
2h32m, The perfect H. P. Lovecraft title to follow on from 2010s At the Mountains of Madness, and the only HPL title not to appear in a periodical! Perfect also because it is split in to 5 distinct chaptersripe for abridgement into five half-hour episodes!, The Shadow Over Innsmouth tells the first-person story of a young historian, Robert Olmstead, who, while investigating his family genealogy in New England, is intrigued to learn about a hated and mysterious fishing town called Innsmouth. When he visits he finds the place to be run-down and near-deserted, with a cult-like religion and a strange, degenerate population. His investigation soon turns into a race to escape the town and the the evil creatures he sees emerging from the sea., The Shadow Over Innsmouth was written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1931 and is the only one of his works of fiction not to have initially been published as part of a periodical. It continues HPLs Cthulhu Mythos, featuring townspeople worshipping the elder sea
