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Books & artifacts

Innsmouth jewelry

The strange metalwork associated with Innsmouth connects an underwater civilization with trade, museum collecting, religious ceremony and the Marsh family’s concealed history.

4 min read · 743 words

Characters

Obed Marsh

Captain Obed Marsh is the seafarer and merchant whom Zadok Allen identifies as the founder of Innsmouth’s compact with the Deep Ones. His pursuit of fish and precious metal becomes entangled with religious coercion, interbreeding and a family history that ultimately includes the narrator of The Shadow over Innsmouth.

6 min read · 1,068 words

Characters

The Innsmouth narrator

The unnamed narrator of The Shadow over Innsmouth begins as a student touring New England for architecture, history and family research. After escaping the town and prompting federal action, he discovers that the ancestry and transformation he feared belong to his own future.

5 min read · 1,034 words