Innsmouth - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

All subsequent references to or usages of Innsmouth and its fictional surroundings appear to be found in postmodern adolescent popular culture:

• The Esoteric Order is also featured in many Call of Cthulhu role-playing game supplements.

• The video game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is set in Innsmouth.

• The Lovecraftian musical A Shoggoth on the Roof features Obed Marsh as a main character, along with the head cultist of a chapter of the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

• The graphic novel The Five Fists of Science features an "Innsmouth Tower" being built in turn of the century New York City. While seemingly benign, the skyscraper's true purpose is to summon a demon known as Leviathan.

• The writer Neil Gaiman has written several short stories set in the town.

• There is an expansion for the Arkham Horror board game from Fantasy Flight Games called Innsmouth Horror.

• The 2001 horror film Dagon is a modern day retelling of Shadow Over Innsmouth and is set in a Galician village called Imboca.

• A board game Innsmouth Escape from Twilight Creations is a 2-5 player game where one player is a human trying to rescue his friends and escape Innsmouth. All other players control Deep Ones, or even a shoggoth, in an effort to kill the human.

• "Other Nations" by T. and P. Marsh features Innsmouth and its denizens in more modern times.

• Innsmouth appeared in S.M. Stirling's novel The Sunrise Lands as a destination for Ingolf Vogeler's troop on their way to Nantuckett. Like many regions East of the Mississippi set in the Change World, the only inhabitants were barely human cannibals.

• Innsmouth Mansion (インスマウスの館 Insumausu no Yakata) is a Japanese Virtual Boy game based on a Japanese low budget movie which in turn is based on H. P. Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".

• TimeSplitters featured a level set in a fishing village inhabitated by mutants and hybrids, which is very similar to Innsmouth.

• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion featured a quest called "A Shadow over Hackdirt", where the player travels to a run down town called Hackdirt (with many similarities to Innsmouth) to save a young Argonian courier girl from being sacrificed to "The Deep Ones", ancient Lovecraftian-esque god/monsters worshipped by the townsfolk.

• The fighting game Skullgirls features a stage named "Little Innsmouth", populated by fish-people called Dagonians.

• The Lovecraftian themed band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets has a song by the name of "The Innsmouth look".