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The chased-by-monsters part of one of HPL's most famous tales.Related content
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Just get behind Guts and his crew! Heβll protect you!
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used this book as inspiration for one of my first superhero stories.
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It's good stuff to be inspired by
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This was one of the first HPL stories I read as a young and impressionable bibliophile, and it helped make me a fan for life. The slow-building reveal to the conga-line of maritime monstrosities was solid gold, along with the atmosphere of transformitive decay and paranoid narrative. I suppose it was only budget restrictions which kept this story from becoming a Twilight Zone episode.Β
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It's a perfect story for getting into Lovecraft. I don't know why he hasn't been adapted more. Maybe his horror is actually too subtle when it comes to visual adaptations. I've heard a number of excellent audio adaptations.
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A pedantic quibble...
The narrator of "The Shadow over Innsmouth" is young man "...celebrating his coming of age..." so this representation seems to old.Β
I mention it only because virtually all, if not actually all, other Lovecraft POV characters are middle-aged or older, something rare even back in the 20s and 30s and today central characters seem to evaporate at 30. Lovecraft likely used older characters because his characters usually suffered not primarily from physical threats but from acquiring knowledge existential threats to the entire human race of such magnitude that the contest is as lopsided as bug vs windshield.Β
However,Β "The Shadow over Innsmouth" is one of his few stories in which lots of physical action takes place and the soul harrowing horror comes not from a more-or-less slow scholastic piecing together of esoteric knowledge but from a single sight which instantly removes all doubt. Indeed, the narrator only ends up in Innsmouth in the first place because he's young, broke and traveling on a shoestring budget. A middle aged character could have afforded a ticket on the train to Arkham, wouldn't have to taken the Innsmouth bus and if had ended up in Innsmouth anyway, could not have escaped by such means as jumping across the gap between buildings.Β
I've really got to stop falling asleep with my Lovecraft audiobooks still running.
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I never set out to make this character look middle-aged, but maybe he does.
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Well, the Innsmouth look" will do that to a fellow. After all, he resembles a Marsh a great deal. 
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One of my faves too! Monster love all the way
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I like what you done with the hybrids, you can really see the change.
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Thanks! I think the turning people are a scarier concept than the transformed deep ones.
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The way you did it I would have to agree with you
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Glad you enjoyed it
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The poor unnamed narrator. HeΒ found more than he bargained for in that ancient, ruinous port town.
Man, The Shadow over InnsmouthΒ has to be one of my favorite works.
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It's a pretty staggering concept. When you think the story is over it turns everything on its head and reveals that the narrator is turning into a monster himself, and loving it
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Seems very Lovecraftian to ensure the main character's doom; whether it be by madness, death, or worse.
Weird to think about how in-universe individuals of the U.S. government - responsible for raiding Innsmouth after the narrator went all ham after escaping the town - reacted to all this.Β
Seeing as how in the prologue they seem to have purged Innsmouth of its cult in such an organized manner.
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"C'mon guys! Red Lobster's All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp Fest is this way!"
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"We're going to Dairy Queen! Horraay!" (MST3K reference)
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Brilliant! The "forshadowing" of the escapee's looks is delightful.
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Thanks 
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Yup, that was pretty much spot on!
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"I'm beginning to hear a lot of fish-men/right outside my door
As I try to escape in fright/through the moonless Innsmouth night
I can hear some more..."
Β Β - Β HPL Historical Society, "A Very Scary Solstice"Β
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I listen to it every Christmas
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Awesome!,Little did he know they were just trying to welcome their kin lol
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Well, he got the idea in the end
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Damn, this is fantastic! I love it! Brings to mind a scene from the film "Dagon", which I'm sure you've probably seen - and if you haven't, you absolutely must! It's probably the best cinematic adaptation of Innsmouth I've seen.
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Glad you like this
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I can understand your disappointment with the deep ones, esp. knowing the original designs, which are pretty unique, but alas, it all comes down to money and the studio didn't want to hash out the kind of cash that would've been needed to bring those designs (and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" overall) to life. Β
It seems to me like "Dagon" was basically Gordon doing his best with what little he had to work with to make TSOI while keeping the window open for the possibility of doing TSOI on a bigger budget at some point in the future which hasn't panned out, unfortunately, but his adaptation of "Dreams in the Witchhouse" for Masters of Horror was pretty decent.
Another really good albeit little known Lovecraft adaptation is "The Whisperer in Darkness" by the good folks at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, which you can check out the trailer for here:Β youtu.be/pd5gWGfnK5M if you haven't seen the film for yourself.
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It's true that Gordon had to settle for a lesser budget, and I'm glad he got to make some kind of version of the story. I was just surprised over how bland most of the monsters looked, and, in my mind, not very much like people turning into fish-frogs. It's surprising, since the effects were made by some of the people who went on to work with Guillermo del Toro. But I'm sure he brought a very distinct design ethic with him.
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"If I were a deep ooone " Gorgeous picture ! It looks like we can see the different states of transformation !
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Yes, I tried to put some stuff in there without making it too obvious.
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This is awesome...and the scariest detail is that we can see, though our hapless hero cannot, his own budding "Innsmouth look"!
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I'm glad you detected some of the innsmouth taint in our "hero", but I hope it's not too obvious. It's something that should be revealed only when you see him from a certain angle, in a certain light.
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You nailed it, because when one looks at the picture for the first time, one sees the monsters--then looks at the hiding man...then back at the monsters and monstrous men...then back at our hero, and says "Waaaiiit a minute....OH MY LORD!"
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That story's one of my favorites, and I think it's one of Lovecraft's most exciting works. I like that mixed posse of hybrids and Deep Ones. Yes, there's a good reason to get the hell out of Innsmouth!Β Β
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Although he goes back, not only accepting his fate, but delighting in it. That's what I think is the biggest power of this story.
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