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{{quote|'''The Necronomicon:''' Iä Shub-Niggurath! As Foulness shall ye know them! }}

:* The titular town in ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' and its mutant inhabitants smell ''very'' strongly of fish.

:* In ''[[The Dunwich Horror]]'', Wilbur was able to keep his brother (the eponymous monster) a secret for so long because its stench kept most passersby from investigating the farm.

:* In ''[[The Dunwich Horror]]'', Wilbur was able to keep his brother (the eponymous monster) a secret for so long because its stench kept most passersby from investigating the farm. Wilbur himself had a bad smell too which caused [[Animals Hate Him| animals to hate him]]; this was, in fact, what caused his demise (a guard dog freaked at the smell and attacked him) which caused the Horror (now without anyone to feed it) to leave the farm and reveal itself.

* In ''[[A Wrinkle in Time|A Wind In The Door]]'' and other books featuring the Echthroi as villains always mention how bad they smell - "makes silage smell like roses," according to Calvin. Thing is, they can disguise this smell until [[Glamour Failure|they are found out]].

** In ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', Chuck has a very sensitive sense of smell, and cruel, mean people smell distinctly bad to him.