1931), “Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.”—Walter Pater (18391894). Five stars all around for this one. It starts out great with the original H.P. D.F. Not one, but two overextended monologues spotlight Lovecraft's utter cluelessness about the way flesh-and-blood people talk. H.P. These fish-frog men are amphibious and willing to come to land to mate with humans, creating deformed offspring who can live forever. Some stories are good or at least interesting. I was fortunate enough to pick up this volume at a Dollar Tree store for $1 (plus tax). Then, they move to individual stories of familial members of those who were taken to those that are monstrous themselves and go into battle against the creatures as they are destroyed by failure of ritual completion. My God. It took me a long time to get through this. Read “The Shadow over Innsmouth”. The guy might as well just string random sentences together, and perhaps that is his style.
'Hey, d'ye hear me? Very happy with purchase. It starts out great with the original H.P. We talked... To see what your friends thought of this book, Shadows over Innsmouth (Shadows Over Innsmouth #1). It feels that some authors are either out of place - or some stories out of order, and it is this disparity that will prevent me from reading the book again in full. But the results are addled and unfocused -- less werewolf than spastic puppy peeing all over the furniture. Lewis contributes his standard nonsense. It seems they bring prosperity in the form of fish as well as fantastically wrought gold jewelry to those who offer them human sacrifice. Each tale does justice in its own rite. Luckily, the authors come from eclectic backgrounds and place the Deep One’s in different contexts with a range of different emphasis with what they want to focus in on. Great product. But after reading this collection of stories by authors exploiting the Deep Ones in a variety of settings, I must admit that the tale and its progeny are growing on me, fungus-like. Even Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Robert Bloch etc. I thought I had found a real gem when I found Shadows Over Innsmouth.
The second chapter details his ride into Innsmouth, described in great detail as a crumbling, mostly deserted town full of dilapidated structures and people who look just a bit odd and who tend to walk with a distinct shambling gait. In the final chapter, we hear of how the narrator wakes up unharmed and quickly walks to the next town (Rowley). Notable stories included Basil Copper’s ‘Beyond the Reef’, Ramsey Campbell’s ‘The Church on High Street’ and Brian Mooney’s ‘The Tomb of Priscus’ which I felt added a new twist to the existing tale, and were rich and strange enough to nestle in amongst the existing Mythos tales. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, and over one million other books are available for.
Eventually he makes his way to some train tracks where he hears a great many creatures passing in the road before him.
I think the eeriest part of the tales are the fact that they fit in so well with each other that it almost appears as if each were drafted relevant to the previous. Luckily, the authors come from eclectic backgrounds and place the Deep One’s in different contexts with a range of different emphasis with what they w. A rich collection of short stories based on Lovecraft’s longest work “The Shadows Over Innsmouth”. This is a fantastic collection of short stories for those who enjoy horror. As the story ends, the narrator, by then a student at Oberlin College, tells us that his horror at the idea is changing into acceptance, and that he will be quite happy living forever in the city Y'ha-nthlei, deep beneath the sea.
Zadok, who is very old, has seen much in the town and goes on at length, telling a tale of fish-frog men known as Deep Ones who live beneath the sea.
Passing through Innsmouth on a genealogical tour of New England, a young man makes an ill-advised attempt to unravel the town’s long-veiled history. I've mentioned this in my review of 'At the mountains of madness' - it's superb, really horrifying and a great combination of Richard Coyle as reader and Jon Nicholls' soundtrack. End of story. Book is larger than expected and has been clearly printed in someone’s house as the quality of the cover is slightly blurry. The narrator gathers much information from the clerk, including a map of the town and the name of a local who might be a good source of information: an ancient man named Zadok Allen, known to open up about the town when plied with drink. Would’ve been one star, if not for the three stories I liked. I dare say this actually makes it 10x more hilarious. Lovecraft short story, but after the next one or two stories, I pretty much knew what I was in for. Not only did it feature the original HP Lovecraft tale but apparently used it as a springboard for a series of all new stories regarding that haunted city. The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a single player Half-Life 2 Mod created for a school project with all the students of my class at NAD Center. It just struck me as sort of mediocre, especially the ending. Disappointing collection. It took me a long time to get through this. I say, when they git... ever hear tell of a shoggoth? If you aren't familiar with the word "furtive", you will be by the time you finish this anthology.