The Tale of the Shadow Over Innsmouth

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It's HP Lovecraft’s turn and nobody can stop it, so he tells a story about a town whose sinister residents guard a dark secret that is almost certainly “There’s a squid”. Howard and Mary go head-to-head in a high-stakes bet.  • HP Lovecraft — ROBIN JOHNSON • Clive Barker — DAVID AULT • Edgar Allan Poe — RODRIGO BORGES • Mary Shelley — REBECCA D'SOUZA • Dean Koontz — WREN MONTGOMERY • Stephen King — JASON ROBINSON with  • Helen Olmstead — TERRI LYNNE HUDSON • Mr Lillibridge — BRAD BARNES • Preacher Marsh — DAISY McNAMARA • Hick — KATE DAVOLI • Bus Driver — JOEL A.S. BUTLER • Gilman — DEXTER HOWARD • Mr Pabody — TENEST TANG Script by Robin Johnson, edited by Bitter Karella. Production, editing, music and sound design by Robin Johnson. The dialogue editor was Liselle Nic Giollabháin.  A transcript of this episode is available at https://midnight-pals.simplecast.com/episodes/the-tale-of-the-shadow-over-innsmouth/transcript HP Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, first rejected by Weird Tales in 1933, is one of his longer, better written, and more clearly xenophobic works. The novella, about a coastal town that has been reduced to decrepitude by an influx of immigra– uh, fish mons