The Shadow over Innsmouth

”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 w......more

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 firs......more

One of the quintessential Lovecraft novellas! A first person narrator comes to visit a decayed fishing town named Innsmouth and is having an nightmarish time there. You'll hear about the cosmic horror, read about 'The Order of Dagon', meet Zadoc Allen and his gruesome tale what actually befell the t......more

‘Where does madness leave off and reality begin?’ The eeriness of a small seaside town becomes a tale of cosmic horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The only book of Lovecraft’s distributed during his lifetime, Innsmouth figures into Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and offers a frightenin......more