# The shadow over Innsmouth

Author: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937; Bok, Hannes, 1914-1964 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73181

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+shadow+over+Innsmouth+Lovecraft&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

During the winter of 1927-28 Federal government officials made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting--under suitable precautions--of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront. Uninquiring souls let this occurrence pass as one of the major clashes in a spasmodic war on liquor.

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shadow-over-innsmouth-73181/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shadow-over-innsmouth-73181/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shadow-over-innsmouth-73181/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shadow-over-innsmouth-73181/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-shadow-over-innsmouth-73181/chapters/5/index.md)