Innsmouth
Innsmouth is a fictional town in the stories of HP Lovecraft and his Cthulhu Mythos. The city is part of a fictional country he stroke, which is also called Lovecraft Country. The most detailed description of the city and its history can be found in his narrative of 1931 Shadows over Innsmouth (The Shadow Over Innsmouth ), which was published in 1936 for the first time.
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Location of the city
Lovecraft Innsmouth located on the coast of Essex County ( Massachusetts), just south of the peninsula, however, Plum north of Cape Ann at. In the immediate neighborhood in the northwest and Rowley should be in the south-west Ipswich, Massachusetts. This invented by Lovecraft Innsmouth should be located in the area of Essex Bay. A few miles off the coast to the dreaded by the fishermen of the area Teufelsriff lie that should protrude only at low tide, especially in new or full moon, out of the water.
South of Innsmouth were more fictitious places, including Kingsport and the university town of Arkham located on the lower reaches of the Miskatonic.
History
Innsmouth to have been founded in 1643 at the mouth of Manuxet and he has been subject to the Revolution as an important port for shipbuilding. After the war of 1812 then the decline of the city is said to have begun. From 1828 to 1838, only the ships of Captain Obed Marsh successfully in the South Seas trade should have been active. The early 1840s to Obed Marsh have stopped the decline, by which promoted massive fishing of cod and other seafood, as well as the construction of the railway branch line to Rowley should have prevailed, bringing the city to have been indirectly connected to the B & M railroad. Higher fishing quotas and better sales opportunities, the city is said to have temporarily competes even with the equally fictitious neighboring Kingsport. However, when in 1846 an epidemic is said to have carried off many of the inhabitants, is said to have used the rapid decline of the city. Since then, should a majority of the population in a previously unexplained, apparently genetically determined disease of the elderly, in which the faces of the sick strange " fishy " take trains to be ill, which will also called Innsmouth Look.
Except for local fishing and in very small extent also of gold mining, the city is said to have no regional significance. In the winter of 1927/28, to a local newspaper have made headlines, said to have been in those reports of a submarine action of the Navy on Teufelsriff, right on the coast of Innsmouth. In addition, to have been blown up during the same period, some port facilities in the city.
Venue in the following stories
The name of Innsmouth was mentioned in Lovecraft 's short story Celephais (1920 ) as a place in England for the first time. In another of his stories of the place, its history and its inhabitants will be developed in more detail:
- Shadows over Innsmouth (The Shadow Over Innsmouth ) (formed in 1931, published 1936)
- The Thing On the Doorstep ( The Thing on the Doorstep ) (formed in 1933, published 1937)
Other authors
Lovecraft's Innsmouth is taken up again in stories by other authors and supplemented by additional details:
- Basil Copper: The Secrets of Innsmouth
- Wolfgang Holbein: The Soul Eater
- August Derleth: The Fisherman of Falcon Point
- August Derleth: Innsmouth sound
- August Derleth: Beyond the threshold
- Neil Gaiman: Shoggoth 's Old Peculiar
- Neil Gaiman: Only once again the end of the world
- Murakami Ryu: Daijobu, mai furendo
Other media
Computer Games
- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth: The player slips into the role of private investigator Jack Walters, who arrives in his search for a missing person after Innsmouth.
- Dagon (film ): An adaptation of the short story " Shadow over Innsmouth ", in which the action is laid in modern times.
- Shadow of the Comet: The player takes the role of journalists here in John Parker, who is sent to the port city " Illsmouth " to find out why Lord Boleskine is insane at the sight of Halley's comet. The further history of the adventure game is based on various works of Lovecraft.
- Second Life: The 3D online community Second Life is called a "Sim" (Region) Innsmouth. This 3D reconstruction of the city provides an environment for role-playing.