Shadow Over Innsmouth (Analysis)
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Arguably my favorite Lovecraft story, it encapsulates everything I love about his style. Nothing "scary", just a very disturbing story that makes you sit in silence when it's over. The slow build into total insanity.
Agreed😊
I love the links that happen. The Thing on the Doorstep holds elements from Innsmouth. Great channel, I subbed.
Honestly, my favorite tidbit about Shadow Over Innsmouth was how the protagonist describes getting “a quality of cheese crackers” from the grocery to snack on while going around the town. A certain cheese cracker was introduced in 1921 and became very popular; so the narrator was going around the weird town of Innsmouth, unwinding the mystery of fish people, The Deep Ones, and Dagon while munching on Cheez-Its.
Ha😂
Lol, I was hoping it would be Goldfish.
One of my favs from the master.
Ah, one of the classics. I think Innsmouth is a good starting point for newbies to Lovecraft - they need only know the era of the setting and everything else is included, it's self-contained. My favourite part is when our guy becomes aware that he may be in danger, but realising that he'd not fare well against a group, he tries to secure his safety without alerting those coming for him so that they don't force the issue yet. It's really effective at creating tension and anticipation. Good overview, David.
The video game “call of Cthulhu: dark corners of the earth” is a video game version of this story. Good game. A bit old.
I really like your analysis. I too think it is pronounced innsmouth like Plymouth but I have listened to audiobooks where it is pronounced like mouth like the body part so who knows. But very enjoyable
I like to think that the protagonist succeeded in breaking his cousin out of the asylum and they make it to the sea. The earlier chase seems to establish the protagonist as pretty smart and tough, and he might be able to pull it off.
The mystery of the narrator's identity is similar in his story The Outsider, but better fleshed all around.
This is my second favorite Lovecraft story. The Witch House is still number one for me. There was just something cool about how he described traversing dimensions by understanding geometry.
Can’t get enough of your Lovecraft stuff please do more David
A brilliant analysis of a work that has haunted me for decades.
My first of Lovecraft and one of the best novel's ending that I ever read.
excellent analysis
If you read mountains of madness first. My take is that these fish type things are decendents of the shoggoths, which have moved away or branched off from what.is in antarctica. Its all bery subjective to each readers mind. Brilliant story telling
This is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories. Though I am partial to The Statement of Randolph Carter and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. But I couldn’t help but chuckle at “he embraced his inner fish-dom”.
Neat analysis. I read through all of Lovecraft's prose at the end of last year, and this winter. Not sure what I was expecting when I went in, but most of the stories struck me as very Poe-like in nature (even though I have a very limited overview of Poe's work). Most of them can be summarised with "something weird happens and nobody believes me", but he did have a knack for writing a good atmosphere. Reading 100-year-old fiction and encountering unwonted words is pretty useful for enriching one's vocabulary, too.
With the _Dream-Quest_ in second place, my favourite story must definitely be _The Colour Out of Space._ Whilst _Innsmouth_ was certainly one of the better ones, in my opinion (though _At the Mountains of Madness_ and _The Shadow Out of Time_ had their merits, they failed to capture me that fully), the utter destitution and hopelessness of the atmosphere in _Colour_ really had me. _Innsmouth_ is interesting for featuring what's pretty much an action scene and very tight writing, but to me the final twist was obvious from the very beginning, and the vodyanoi really weren't as unsettling as the utter alienness of the Colour in its story.
What’s pretty cool is this book is what inspired the fishing hamlet in bloodborne
We reject our earthly fires
Gone are days of land empires
Lungs transform to take in water
Cloaked in scales we swim and swim on
(This album is intended for fish only)
Every American we can educate about how to pronounce innsmouth or Plymouth or Portsmouth is a great thing 😊😊😊
Innsmouth is a great short story, one of Lovecraft's best and best known. Personally I like Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stories as much as his more typical horror works, if not even more. The Dreamland stories are just so weird. I especially like how Lovecraft takes figures that are usually monstrous and sinister (like Nyarlathotep) and in the Dream stories characterizes them in an entirely different way, even making them benevolent in some ways. It's jarring but conveys the dream-quality of the world very effectively.
2:31 Which is probably why Lovecraft loved cats.
Wow imagine being a fish person.
GIMME THE FOOD THAT SMELLS LIKE ME ALREADY
I don't hate them.
But I don't trust them either.
The narrator's character arc neatly mirrors Kanye West in the "gay fish" South Park episode
I think I prefer his longer works. I have the two collections from Del Rey and 'Bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre' is definitely the most enjoyable (and includes Innsmouth)
I'm of a similar mind in terms of the 2 hour reads, haven't heard the term from anyone else though. Somehow with publishing getting standardized in the later half of the 20th century it seems like economics/logistics led to compressing stories into either being 2k word short stories or 100k novels.
Shadow Over Innsmouth was the story that introduced me to Lovecraft in the first place. Before that, it was mostly just things "inspired" by Lovecraft like John Carpenter's horror films. So it has a special place in my heart.
It's just too bad nobody's tried a faithful adaptation of the story itself. Closest we got is probably Dagon but there were some huge changes nonetheless that, far as the standards of "faithful" is concerned, were pretty unnecessary.
It's a metaphor of the mental illness present in his family. There is a lot of self-biography in his tales.
It has always seemed to me that “Shadow over Innsmouth” is less “gothic horror” than social reportage. I refer to it as “The Shadow over Wearmouth”, which is where I live in the UK. You could compare it with the movie “Race with the Devil”. Let’s face it, there *is* a “Dogon of the Philistines”! (Muggles?)
U should read one of his stories for us
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