BananaSlug
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The American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft wrote a number of stories set in New England. One such tale, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", is set in a run-down fishing port. The population has "the Innsmouth look" which the narrator blames on intermarriage with South Sea islanders hired to crew Captain Marsh's fishing boats. Advanced cases of "the look" have scaly skin. I won't tell you the whole story, you might read it someday. (And if you do, you might LOL at the description of the townspeople hunting the narrator -- at least, I did.)
I got to wondering about that scaly skin, tho.
HPL was keen on New England history and loved to put strange details into his stories to make readers confused about reality vs. fiction. I'm thinking "the Innsmouth look" might have started out as HPL having some fun with Captain Cook's description of kava dermopathy.
I got to wondering about that scaly skin, tho.
HPL was keen on New England history and loved to put strange details into his stories to make readers confused about reality vs. fiction. I'm thinking "the Innsmouth look" might have started out as HPL having some fun with Captain Cook's description of kava dermopathy.
