The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 5

We’re back and we’re taking part in some self-reflection. It would just be a bit easier if our reflections didn’t keep changing. Maybe it’s inevitable once you get to a certain age. Your hairline starts receding, your face gets jowly, you develop gill slits on your neck… It’s enough to make you want to throw yourself in the ocean. Main Topic: The Shadow Over Innsmouth part 5 This is the fifth part of our multi-episode exploration of HP Lovecraft’s classic weird tale, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Last time, we followed Robert Olmstead’s increasingly frantic departure from the town of Innsmouth. This episode, we reach the end of the story. Olmstead now has time to process what he has seen and learnt. Of course, in true Lovecraftian fashion, that just makes things worse. Or does it? Strap yourself in for an extended debate about just what that ending means. We’ll be back next time to wrap up our analysis of the story and to pick the bones for some gaming meat. Links Things we mention in this episode include: * HP Lovecraft’s family * Pectoral jewellery * Nameless Horrors * “The Outsider” by HP Lovecraft * Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys * Tales Out of Innsmouth edited by Robert M Price * Transhumanism * Cthulhu (2007) * “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family” by HP Lovecraft * “The Call of Cthulhu” by HP Lovecraft * At the Mountains of Madness by HP Lovecraft * “The Shadow Out of Time” by HP Lovecraft * Coughlinism * The Silver Shirts * Ku Klux Klan * CL Moore * Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Thank you to our good friends at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society for their kindly allowing us to play out with “It’s Beginning to...