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{{quote|''"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen<br />
Everywhere I go.<br />
From the minute I got to town<br />
And started to look around<br />
I thought these ill-bred people's gill-slits showed."''|''Dagon [[Running the Asylum|Tabernacle Choir]]'' [http://www.cthulhulives.org/Solstice/fish-menplayer.html\][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI\]}}
 
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: Zadok Allen, despite his drunkenness.
* [[Purple Prose]]: Trademark Lovecraft.
{{quote| And yet I saw them in a limitless stream - flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating - urging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. }}
* [[Religion of Evil]]: The Esoteric Order of Dagon.
* [[Scenery Gorn]]: Lovecraft ''loves'' describing Innsmouth's decay.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: Innsmouth's bad reputation is precisely one of the reasons the narrator decided to go.
{{quote| A town able to inspire such dislike in it its neighbors, I thought, must be at least rather unusual, and worthy of a tourist's attention.}}
* [[Sinister Minister]]: Zadok Allen recalls how the Esoteric Order of Dagon took over the town and Captain Marsh's crewmen were promoted as priests of the new religion. Creepy tiara-wearing priests still lurk in dark corners, and several are seen among the narrator's pursuers toward the end.
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: Typical of Lovecraft, the worst is only hinted at.
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* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: Probably the [[Trope Maker]] or [[Trope Codifier|Codifier]].
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: [[Invoked]] via the "Innsmouth Look."
{{quote| "There certainly is a strange kind of streak in the Innsmouth folks today - I don't know how to explain it but it sort of makes you crawl. You'll notice a little in Sargent if you take his bus. Some of 'em have queer narrow heads with flat noses and bulgy, starry eyes that never seem to shut, and their skin ain't quite right. Rough and scabby, and the sides of the necks are all shriveled or creased up. Get bald, too, very young."}}
* [[Underwater City]]: Y'ha-nthlei.
* [[Was Once a Man]]: The hybrids are born human but slowly transform.
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