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** [[Adaptational Badass]]: HPL depicted the Deep Ones as a pathetic degenerate subhuman race. Most writers since have turned them into aquatic supermen who would even give Aquaman a run for his money.
* [[Author Avatar]]: The narrator shares his antiquarian interests and frugal travel habits with Lovecraft. {{spoiler|His horror at his inhuman heritage may also reflect Lovecraft's fear of hereditary insanity, thanks to his father's breakdown, and his shock at learning that his great-grandmother was . . . WELSH}}.
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* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]] / [[Glamour Failure]]: Animals hate the Innsmouth folk, and the town is naturally devoid of them.
* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: Innsmouth and its inhabitants emanate a nauseating fish odor.
** [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: What we think of as the "fish odor" is actually the smell of [http://www.humantouchofchemistry.com/node/10 dead fish]. So unless [[Re-Animator|Herbert West]] is up to something [[Non-Human Undead|even worse]]. . .
*** The smell is present in live fish as well, as anyone who's gone fishing can attest. It just gets stronger after the fish dies.
*** Also the only remaining notable industry in town is fishing so there's a lot of fish to stink up the joint.
* [[The Film of the Book]] / [[Lovecraft on Film]]: ''[[Dagon]]''.
* [[Fish People]]: The Deep Ones.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]
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* [[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.
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]: {{spoiler|The narrator is a Deep One hybrid himself, descended from Obed Marsh and one Pth'thya-l'yi}}.
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