Although the game's story diverges in several places and features a completely different protagonist, several levels mirror passages from Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth.
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The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos, and in particular the game is a reimagining of Lovecraft's 1936 novella The Shadow over Innsmouth.
Innsmouth no Yakata was a 1995 3D first-person shooter video game for the Virtual Boy, released in Japan based on Chiaki J. Konaka's 1992 television series Insmus wo Oou Kage.
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As the story ends, the narrator, by then a student at Oberlin College, tells us that his horror at the idea is changing into acceptance, and that he will be quite happy living forever in the city Y'ha-nthlei, deep beneath the sea.
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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.
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The collection was edited by Stephen Jones, and included contributions by Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, David Sutton, Kim Newman (both as himself and Jack Yeovil), and other authors.
The White Shadow | Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles | DJ Shadow | The Shadow | Shadow Cabinet | Batman: Shadow of the Bat | Moonlight Shadow | The Shadow Out of Time | Storm Shadow | The Shadow Line | Shadow Project | Shadow Leader of the House of Commons | Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | The Shadow over Innsmouth | Shadow Theatre | Shadow Raiders | Shadow on the Wall | Shadow of the Thin Man | Shadow Home Secretary | Pandemonium Shadow Show | Ender's Shadow | Vincent Black Shadow | Twin Shadow | The Shadow of Your Smile | The Shadow of Weng-Chiang | The Shadow of the Wind | The Shadow Line (TV series) | Snake in the Eagle's Shadow | Shadow Weave | Shadow Warrior |
Wright (who suffered from Parkinson's disease) continued to publish stories by Lovecraft, Smith, and Quinn, though he was more selective than Baird; he rejected Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness", "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and (initially) "The Call of Cthulhu", among other stories.