The town was once a profitable port and shipbuilding center during the colonial and post- revolutionary periods, but began to decline after the War of 1812 interrupted shipping. While waiting for the bus that will take him to Innsmouth, the narrator busies himself in neighboring Newburyport by gathering information on the town's history from the locals all of it having superstitious overtones. The narrator proceeds to describe in detail the events surrounding his initial interest in the town, which lies along the route of his tour across New England, taken when he was a 21-year-old student at Oberlin College. The investigation ultimately concluded with the arrest and detention of many of the town's residents in concentration camps as well as a submarine torpedoing nearby Devil Reef, which the press falsely reported as Prohibition liquor raids. government after fleeing it on July 16, 1927. The narrator explains how he instigated a secret investigation of the decrepit town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts-a former seaport isolated from other nearby towns by vast salt marshes-by the U.S. There he interacts with strange people and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying and personal revelations. He travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth which is suggested as a cheaper and potentially interesting next leg of his journey.

The narrator is a student conducting an antiquarian tour of New England. The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only Lovecraft story that was published in book form during his lifetime.

Its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using

Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H.

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