The Shadow over Innsmouth

About this book

The bus to Innsmouth makes a stop that the traveller will wish he had missed. Shops stand empty, the people seem strangely alike, and nobody wants to explain what happened to the town's fishing industry. After dark, the streets reveal a horror older than the decaying harbour.

H. P. Lovecraft builds the story around a curious visitor's investigation of a coastal community and its bargain with beings from the sea. Rumour becomes pursuit, and the final discovery reaches into the narrator's own family history. Innsmouth's boarded windows and uneasy silences make its supernatural secret feel almost tangible long before it is revealed.