![]() ![]() In keeping with the "fish-men want to mate with our women" meme that somehow got inserted into the human unconscious early in our evolution, the Deep Ones have made a deal with the townsfolk: If the humans interbreed with the Deep Ones, their progeny will live forever for those who aren't Deep One hybrids, the Deep Ones provided gold and fish, to ensure their livelihoods. Obligatory art-related gripes aside, what is the book about? Innsmouth forms one of the key stories in Lovecraft's work it was a novella about a man visiting a decaying fishing town named Innsmouth on some errand or another and finding out that the residents had made a deal with Cthulhu - in this case, with the fish-frog-human hybrids, the Deep Ones. Unfortunately, the cover art on the original book has been shrunk down to almost a thumbnail - I miss the days when Chaosium would print these huge, full-cover illustrations, putting the author's names in the corner instead of a vague blue pattern surrounding an otherwise excellent illustration. ![]() Originally published as part of a series, it's reprinted here in an expanded version - the gigantic adventure in the back has been fleshed out with an extra firefight within a gold refinery, and I assume that various changes were made in order to tighten up things that got missed in the first edition. Escape From Innsmouth is, I believe, a second edition, and it was a wise decision to do so, but there's other books - specifically, Return to Dunwich and Kingport: City in the Mists that could easily do with the same treatment that Escape From Innsmouth gets here. #THE INNSMOUTH CASE REVIEW SERIES#It's a real shame that Chaosium hasn't done more to promote the Lovecraft Country series of books. ![]()
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