“A Surprise for the Holidays” — Season’s Greetings from Innsmouth, Massachusetts
The monstrous tentacles in the image are a nod to the Cthulhu Mythos of the “father of American horror writing,” H.P. Lovecraft; the fictional town of Innsmouth appears in his novella, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” (It should be noted that Lovecraft was a confirmed racist, misogynist, and antisemite. Later enthusiasts have salvaged the framework of […]