Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Innsmouth, Massachusetts

"During the winter of 1927–28 officials of the Federal government 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."

 - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow over Innsmouth"

Charolax brings us this nicely done vintage-style map of Innsmouth, Massachusetts.  Click through to see some other interations of the project.


 

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