“ What monstrousness overshadows the decayed seaport town of Innsmouth—a town which all normal folks shun like a plague? What gruesome bargain can have been made by the ancestors of Inns mouth's inhabitants? For these people, strangely fishlike in appearance, never die; they merely DISAPPEAR.... ”

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