The Innswitch Horror by Edward Lee, A Tribute to Horror Master H. P. Lovecraft

I vividly remember the first time I have read a short fiction by H. P. Lovecraft. From the very first sentences I was indulging in its exquisite, archaic language and its brooding atmosphere: it was a magical, dark world. The story was The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Edward Lee’s novel The Innswitch Horror is a tribute to the said fiction.



The Innswitch Horror is more suspenseful as most of Edward Lee’s books and not as much gory, and for once I say it is right: it suits Lovecraft’s world.
Foster Morley is a young antiquarian who is fond of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror stories and Chtulhu myths. In the summer of 1939, two years after Lovecraft’s death, he decides to visit the shores of Massachusetts where Lovecraft’s fictional town Innsmouth is supposedly located. He does find a fishermen’s village called Innswitch Point, a place that cannot be seen on any map. The village, its houses, its inhabitants, bear disquieting semblance with Innsmouth. Morley learns that Lovecraft’s fictions were not fictions at all – the grim reality of Innswitch Point is much worse, full of perversion and gore. Morley meets a resident, a heroin addicted man, who tells him unthinkable things about the place – then queer figures start to hunt him. He could count himself lucky if he gets away with his life…

Description of The Innswitch Horror:
The sickest writer in horror takes on the Cthulhu Mythos In July, 1939, antiquarian and H.P. Lovecraft aficionado, Foster Morley, takes a scenic bus tour through the wilds of northern Massachusetts. He wants to go where Lovecraft went, and to see what Lovecraft saw, to further distill his understanding of history's most impacting horror fantasist. When he happens upon the curious, secluded waterfront prefect known as Innswich Point-not to be found on any map-he assumes the curiosity of the name is mere coincidence, but in less than twenty-four hours he'll learn that he couldn't be more mistaken. Deeper and deeper, then, Morley delves into the queer town's dark mystique. Has his imagination run rampant, or are there far too many similarities between this furtive fishing village and the fictional town of Lovecraft's masterpiece, The Shadow Over Innsmouth? Could it be possible that Lovecraft himself actually visited this town before his death in 1937? Join splatter king Edward Lee for a private tour of Innswich Point - a town founded on perversion, torture, and abominations from the sea.