Inspired Works
The 1973 film Lemora was partially inspired by The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with vampires taking the place of the Deep Ones.
The Syrian doom metal band Innzmouth has taken its name from the story and the band is heavily influenced by the themes of Lovecraft. There is also a Dominican black metal band named Innsmouth.
The lyrics of Metallica's song "The Thing That Should Not Be" from their 1986 album Master of Puppets are based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The Shadow Over Innsmouth is the inspiration of the dark electronic band God Module's song "Foreseen" from the 2005 CD Viscera. Lovecraft-inspired Canadian punk band Darkest of the Hillside Thickets humorously references this story in the song "The Innsmouth Look". The story also inspired the song "Endsmouth" by Agents of Oblivion.
In the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game system, the raid on Innsmouth by government agents eventually leads to the creation of Delta Green and its mission to combat the Old Ones whenever possible. The story was also used as the basic background and plotline for the German role-playing gamebook Stadt der Dämonen ("City of Demons") by Uwe Anton.
The adventure video game Shadow of the Comet references the novel. The role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has the quest "A Shadow over Hackdirt" that entails rescuing a girl captive from the cultist village of Hackdirt. The MMORPG RuneScape also has a quest inspired by this story, featuring a character named Lovecraft. The first-person shooter TimeSplitters pays homage to The Shadow Over Innsmouth by featuring a level set in a fishing village inhabitated by mutants and hybrids.
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