Wasting no time, he attempts to escape out a window and through the streets, at times imitating the peculiar walk of the Innsmouth locals.

Lovecraft was quite critical of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, writing to August Derleth that the story " has all the defects I deplore — especially in point of style, where hackneyed phrases & rhythms have crept in despite all precautions .... No — I don't intend to offer ' The Shadow over Innsmouth ' for publication, for it would stand no chance of acceptance.

The precise location of Arkham is unknown, although it is probably near both Innsmouth and Dunwich.

Rowley is the town that the protagonist flees to from fictional Innsmouth in the H. P. Lovecraft short story " The Shadow Over Innsmouth ".

In the story, Innsmouth is located to the southeast of Rowley.

* The town of Innsmouth is mentioned in sonnets VIII (" The Port ") and XIX (" The Bells ")

Its title is a play on two of Lovecraft's tales, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At the Mountains of Madness, and insanity plays as great a role in the film as it does in Lovecraft's fiction.

Innsmouth, Massachusetts is a fictional town in the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Lovecraft Country setting of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Lovecraft's more famous Innsmouth, however, is found in his ( 1936 ) story " The Shadow Over Innsmouth ", set in Massachusetts.

The town of Ipswich, Massachusetts is said to be a near neighbor, where many Innsmouth residents do their shopping ; Rowley, Massachusetts, another neighboring town, is said to be to the northwest.

* The video game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is set in Innsmouth.

* There is an expansion for the Arkham Horror board game from Fantasy Flight Games called Innsmouth Horror.

* The 2001 horror film Dagon is a modern day retelling of Shadow Over Innsmouth and is set in a Galician village called Imboca.

* A board game Innsmouth Escape from Twilight Creations is a 2-5 player game where one player is a human trying to rescue his friends and escape Innsmouth.

* TimeSplitters featured a level set in a fishing village inhabitated by mutants and hybrids, which is very similar to Innsmouth.

* Insmus wo Oou Kage ( a Japanese television adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth )

* The fighting game Skullgirls features a stage named " Little Innsmouth ", populated by fish-people called Dagonians.

The game uses many elements from Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

The game takes place in 1910, and concerns the visit of a young British photographer, John Parker, to the isolated New England town of Illsmouth ( an alteration on Lovecraft's Innsmouth ) to witness and photograph the passage of Halley's Comet.

The game revolves around a fictitious secret organization called Delta Green ( created by the U. S. Government following the covert raid on the town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts as alluded to in H. P.

Coyle played " Keats " in the game Folklore and has also narrated the following audio books: At The Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft, Resistance by Owen Sheers, and the H. I. V. E.

* In Funcom's computer game ( MMO ) The Secret World ( released 2012 ), there is an important female non-player character who appears to be the only surviving student at the ' Innsmouth Academy ' called simply " Carter ".

The town of Innsmouth is the backdrop for the 2005 first-person action-adventure video game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, the opening plot of which follows the second, third and fourth chapters of the novella with a great degree of accuracy ( with a different protagonist ).

In the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game system, the raid on Innsmouth by government agents eventually leads to the creation of Delta Green and its mission to combat the Old Ones whenever possible.

The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of The Call of Cthulhu and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos, and in particular being an reimagined adaptation of Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Although the story diverges in several places and features a completely different protagonist, several levels in the game mirror passages from The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

The metal band Metallica recorded a song inspired by " The Call of Cthulhu ", an instrumental titled " The Call of Ktulu ", a song based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth titled " The Thing That Should Not Be ", and a song based on Frank Belknap Long's " The Hounds of Tindalos ", titled " All Nightmare Long ".

Lovecraft in fact based his depiction of Innsmouth largely on Newburyport.

Based on his research, Murray thinks that Lovecraft actually based Innsmouth on Gloucester, Massachusetts, which is located on Cape Ann on the coast.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth was republished as an anthology with stories by other authors based on Innsmouth and the Old Ones in Shadows Over Innsmouth.

The 2007 film Cthulhu is loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

The lyrics of Metallica's song " The Thing That Should Not Be " from their 1986 album Master of Puppets are based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Stuart Gordon has directed several large-scale Lovecraftian movies including From Beyond and Dagon ( the latter largely based on Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth ).

* Shoggoths are mentioned in the Lovecraft short stories " The Shadow Over Innsmouth " ( 1931 ) and " The Thing on the Doorstep " ( 1933 ).

Lovecraft placed Innsmouth on the coast of Essex County, Massachusetts, south of Plum Island and north of Cape Ann.

In 1840, Marsh started a cult in Innsmouth known as the Esoteric Order of Dagon, basing it on a religion practiced by certain Polynesian islanders he had met during his travels.

The narrator of the story, he discovers Innsmouth on a tour of New England seeking genealogical information, and finds more than he bargains for.

* As related in " The Thing on the Doorstep " ( 1937 ), Asenath Waite, the possessed victim of her father Ephraim Waite, is by implication one of the human / deep one hybrids, and was a resident of Innsmouth before attending Miskatonic University.

At the suggestion of August Derleth, he rewrote many of his earliest stories, which he had originally set in the Massachusetts locales of Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth, and relocated them to English settings in and around the fictional Gloucestershire city of Brichester, near the River Severn, creating his own Severn Valley milieu for Lovecraftian horrors.

These fish-frog men were first discovered in the Indies by a native island tribe, which was itself found by an Innsmouth merchant named Obed Marsh.

* August Derleth also used the deep ones in the short story " Innsmouth Clay ", which he completed from Lovecraft's notes.