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That
was
the
first
I
ever
heard
of
shadowed
Innsmouth
.
Any
reference
to
a
town
not
shown
on
common
maps
or
listed
in
recent
guidebooks
would
have
interested
me
,
and
the
agent
's
odd
manner
of
allusion
roused
something
like
real
curiosity
.
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
.
If
it
came
before
Arkham
I
would
stop
off
there
and
so
I
asked
the
agent
to
tell
me
something
about
it
.
He
was
very
deliberate
,
and
spoke
with
an
air
of
feeling
slightly
superior
to
what
he
said
.
"
Innsmouth
?
Well
,
it
's
a
queer
kind
of
a
town
down
at
the
mouth
of
the
Manuxet
.
Used
to
be
almost
a
city
--
quite
a
port
before
the
War
of
1812
--
but
all
gone
to
pieces
in
the
last
hundred
years
or
so
.
No
railroad
now
--
B.
and
M.
never
went
through
,
and
the
branch
line
from
Rowley
was
given
up
years
ago
.
"
More
empty
houses
than
there
are
people
,
I
guess
,
and
no
business
to
speak
of
except
fishing
and
lobstering
.
Everybody
trades
mostly
either
here
or
in
Arkham
or
Ipswich
.
Once
they
had
quite
a
few
mills
,
but
nothing
's
left
now
except
one
gold
refinery
running
on
the
leanest
kind
of
part
time
.
"
That
refinery
,
though
,
used
to
be
a
big
thing
,
and
old
man
Marsh
,
who
owns
it
,
must
be
richer
'n
Croesus
.
Queer
old
duck
,
though
,
and
sticks
mighty
close
in
his
home
.
He
's
supposed
to
have
developed
some
skin
disease
or
deformity
late
in
life
that
makes
him
keep
out
of
sight
.
Grandson
of
Captain
Obed
Marsh
,
who
founded
the
business
.
His
mother
seems
to
've
been
some
kind
of
foreigner
--
they
say
a
South
Sea
islander
--
so
everybody
raised
Cain
when
he
married
an
Ipswich
girl
fifty
years
ago
.
They
always
do
that
about
Innsmouth
people
,
and
folks
here
and
hereabouts
always
try
to
cover
up
any
Innsmouth
blood
they
have
in
'em
.
But
Marsh
's
children
and
grandchildren
look
just
like
anyone
else
far
's
I
can
see
.
I
've
had
'em
pointed
out
to
me
here
--
though
,
come
to
think
of
it
,
the
elder
children
do
n't
seem
to
be
around
lately
.
Never
saw
the
old
man
.
"
And
why
is
everybody
so
down
on
Innsmouth
?
Well
,
young
fellow
,
you
must
n't
take
too
much
stock
in
what
people
here
say
.
They
're
hard
to
get
started
,
but
once
they
do
get
started
they
never
let
up
.
They
've
been
telling
things
about
Innsmouth
--
whispering
'em
,
mostly
--
for
the
last
hundred
years
,
I
guess
,
and
I
gather
they
're
more
scared
than
anything
else
.
Some
of
the
stories
would
make
you
laugh
--
about
old
Captain
Marsh
driving
bargains
with
the
devil
and
bringing
imps
out
of
hell
to
live
in
Innsmouth
,
or
about
some
kind
of
devil-worship
and
awful
sacrifices
in
some
place
near
the
wharves
that
people
stumbled
on
around
1845
or
thereabouts
--
but
I
come
from
Panton
,
Vermont
,
and
that
kind
of
story
do
n't
go
down
with
me
.
"
You
ought
to
hear
,
though
,
what
some
of
the
old-timers
tell
about
the
black
reef
off
the
coast
--
Devil
Reef
,
they
call
it
.
It
's
well
above
water
a
good
part
of
the
time
,
and
never
much
below
it
,
but
at
that
you
could
hardly
call
it
an
island
.
The
story
is
that
there
's
a
whole
legion
of
devils
seen
sometimes
on
that
reef
--
sprawled
about
,
or
darting
in
and
out
of
some
kind
of
caves
near
the
top
.
It
's
a
rugged
,
uneven
thing
,
a
good
bit
over
a
mile
out
,
and
toward
the
end
of
shipping
days
sailors
used
to
make
big
detours
just
to
avoid
it
.
"
That
is
,
sailors
that
did
n't
hail
from
Innsmouth
.
One
of
the
things
they
had
against
old
Captain
Marsh
was
that
he
was
supposed
to
land
on
it
sometimes
at
night
when
the
tide
was
right
.
Maybe
he
did
,
for
I
dare
say
the
rock
formation
was
interesting
,
and
it
's
just
barely
possible
he
was
looking
for
pirate
loot
and
maybe
finding
it
;
but
there
was
talk
of
his
dealing
with
demons
there
.
Fact
is
,
I
guess
on
the
whole
it
was
really
the
Captain
that
gave
the
bad
reputation
to
the
reef
.
"
That
was
before
the
big
epidemic
of
1846
,
when
over
half
the
folks
in
Innsmouth
was
carried
off
.
They
never
did
quite
figure
out
what
the
trouble
was
,
but
it
was
probably
some
foreign
kind
of
disease
brought
from
China
or
somewhere
by
the
shipping
.
It
surely
was
bad
enough
--
there
was
riots
over
it
,
and
all
sorts
of
ghastly
doings
that
I
do
n't
believe
ever
got
outside
of
town
--
and
it
left
the
place
in
awful
shape
.
Never
came
back
--
there
ca
n't
be
more
'n
300
or
400
people
living
there
now
.
"
But
the
real
thing
behind
the
way
folks
feel
is
simply
race
prejudice
--
and
I
do
n't
say
I
'm
blaming
those
that
hold
it
.
I
hate
those
Innsmouth
folks
myself
,
and
I
would
n't
care
to
go
to
their
town
.
I
s
'
pose
you
know
--
though
I
can
see
you
're
a
Westerner
by
your
talk
--
what
a
lot
our
New
England
ships
used
to
have
to
do
with
queer
ports
in
Africa
,
Asia
,
the
South
Seas
,
and
everywhere
else
,
and
what
queer
kinds
of
people
they
sometimes
brought
back
with
'em
.
You
've
probably
heard
about
the
Salem
man
that
came
home
with
a
Chinese
wife
,
and
maybe
you
know
there
's
still
a
bunch
of
Fiji
Islanders
somewhere
around
Cape
Cod
.
