The student is tricked into staying overnight in the town, and he is attacked in his hotel. A local resident tells him a horrifying story of aquatic monsters who can interbreed with humans to produce amphibian hybrids. He travels to Innsmouth and observes disturbing events and people. He sees a piece of exotic jewelry in a museum, and learns that its source is the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth. The narrator is a student on an antiquarian tour of New England. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures and invocations. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H.
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