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{{quote|''"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen▼
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| caption = Illustrations Hannes Bok for the January 1942 issue of ''Weird Tales''
| author = H. P. Lovecraft
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| genre = Horror
| franchise = Cthulhu Mythos
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| publication date = April 1936
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▲}}{{quote|''"It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmen
''Everywhere I go.
''From the minute I got to town
''And started to look around
''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\]}}
Innsmouth is a small, run-down village on the northern coast of Massachusetts, near Ipswich, Gloucester, and [[Lovecraft Country|Arkham]]. Locals don't like it much. There are whispered rumors about dark dealings with the supernatural, the taint of foreign blood, and some sort of hereditary deformity. While touring New England, a young man learns of the town's sinister reputation and [[Schmuck Bait|decides it's worth a visit]]. Curiouser and curiouser, he bribes the local drunk, said to be the [[Only Sane Man|only normal human left]], with his favorite poison. The tale he tells is crazy yet the narrator cannot ignore the sinister atmosphere and the evidence before his own eyes. After barely escaping with his own life, our hero eventually {{spoiler|discovers that he himself is one of the hybrid [[Fish People]], a direct descendant of Innsmouth's most prominent family}}.
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