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The perfect H. P. Lovecraft title to follow on from 2010's At the Mountains of Madness, and really the only HPL title never to come in a periodical! Perfect also since it is split in to 5 distinctive chapters...ripe for abridgement into five half-hour episodes! The Shadow Over Innsmouth tells the first-person account of a historian, Robert Olmstead, who, while investigating his family genealogy in New Britain, is intrigued to learn about a hated and incomprehensible angling town called Innsmouth. When he goes to he locates the destination to be run-down and near-deserted, with a cult-like faith and a odd, degenerate populace. His analysis soon turns into a race to flee the city and the the evil creatures he views emerging from the sea. The Shadow Over Innsmouth was compiled by H. P. Lovecraft in 1931 and is also the only one of his works of fiction never to have primarily been published within a periodical. It proceeds HPL's Cthulhu Mythos, displaying townspeople worshipping the elder sea god Dagon and mentioning the incomprehensible Shoggoth creature of his other works. Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, dream and research fiction, especially the subgenre known as unusual fiction. As soon as the 1940s, Lovecraft experienced developed a cult pursuing for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction having a pantheon of humanity-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical. Although Lovecraft's audience was limited during his life, his reputation has grown and he's now regarded as one of the very most influential horror authors of the 20th Century. Stephen Ruler called him "the 20th century's most significant practitioner of the common horror tale." This 2011 adaptation comprises five episodes, originally shown on BBC Radio 4 Extra, once again read by the superb Richard Coyle and displaying music by acclaimed composer Jon Nicholls. The series emerges within exclusive extended model.
