This novella is about a man who visits a decrepit fishing village (in my mind, I now picture it as the Fishing Hamlet in Bloodborne) and learns of its dark secrets, as well as one of his own.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth was the first Lovecraft story I ever read and I think I started with that one because of Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. I've already mentioned it in a previous post, but there's a particularly scary segment of that game where you have to escape from the room you're renting and I thought if the story was even half as scary as that part of the game was, it would be worth reading. I wasn't disappointed.
I keep hoping that someday, there will be a decent movie adaptation of this story. Ideally, made by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Until then, they've created a wonderful old-time radio adaptation of it, which you can buy here.
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