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'''"[[wikipedia:The Shadow Over Innsmouth|The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]"''' is one of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s longest and most famous stories. Among the various beasties of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], the Deep Ones and their half-human spawn are among the most popular and enduring, inspiring numerous other authors (including [http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-over-Innsmouth-Stephen-Jones/dp/0345444078/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1308273466&sr=1-2 Neil Gaiman]), as well as the 2001 film ''[[Dagon]]'' and the video game ''[[Dark Corners of the Earth]]''.
''Innsmouth'' has also been adapted twice as an audio drama by the [[Atlanta Radio Theater Company]] and the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. It has also been [
The complete story can be read online [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Over_Innsmouth here].
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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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20110430104928/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.
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