Innsmouth

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fictional location fictional town setting in horror fiction

Innsmouth is a fictional, decaying New England seaport town in H. P. Lovecraft’s horror fiction, notorious for its sinister cults and inhuman inhabitants.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	fictional location ⓘ fictional town ⓘ setting in horror fiction ⓘ
appearsInWork	The Dunwich Horror (mentioned) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shadow over Innsmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing on the Doorstep NERFINISHED ⓘ The Whisperer in Darkness (mentioned) NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOn	Gloucester, Massachusetts (inspiration) NERFINISHED ⓘ Marblehead, Massachusetts (inspiration) NERFINISHED ⓘ Newburyport, Massachusetts (inspiration) NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United States (fictional setting) NERFINISHED ⓘ
creator	H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ
event	arrest and internment of inhabitants (in-story) ⓘ destruction of parts of the town by explosives (in-story) ⓘ federal government raid in 1928 (in-story) ⓘ
firstAppearanceIn	The Shadow over Innsmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	cosmic horror ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ
governedBy	Marsh family (local power) NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEconomy	fishing industry ⓘ gold and jewelry trade with Deep Ones (in-story) ⓘ
hasFeature	Marsh refinery NERFINISHED ⓘ fish-processing plants ⓘ harbor ⓘ ramshackle houses ⓘ refinery ⓘ
hasReligion	Esoteric Order of Dagon NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasStructure	Esoteric Order of Dagon hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Gilman House hotel NERFINISHED ⓘ Marsh family mansion NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	later horror fiction depictions of decaying seaside towns ⓘ role-playing game settings in Call of Cthulhu ⓘ various film and television adaptations inspired by The Shadow over Innsmouth ⓘ
inUniverseStatus	largely abandoned after federal raid ⓘ
language	English (in-universe primary language) ⓘ
locatedIn	Massachusetts (fictional setting) NERFINISHED ⓘ New England (fictional setting) NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	decaying seaport environment ⓘ hybrid human–Deep One population ⓘ inhuman inhabitants ⓘ sinister cults ⓘ
partOf	Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED ⓘ
populationCharacteristic	Innsmouth Look (distinctive appearance) NERFINISHED ⓘ inbreeding ⓘ
timePeriod	early 20th century (primary setting) ⓘ
worships	Cthulhu NERFINISHED ⓘ Dagon NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cthulhu Mythos → includesLocation → Innsmouth ⓘ

The Shadow over Innsmouth → setting → Innsmouth ⓘ

The Shadow over Innsmouth → featuresFictionalPlace → Innsmouth ⓘ