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...example from the famous Shadow Over Innsmouth will suffice. The plot concerns a doomed Massachussetts fishing town whose population is obscenely corrupted by intermingling with a race of fiendish undersea creatures. Learning all this, the narrator attempts to flee. On the outskirts of town, he looks back and sees his pursuers "in a limitless stream-flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating, surging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dream Lurker | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

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