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Arkham Gazette
November 2013
Revised May 2018
by
L. T. BARKER
The Hymnal of the Esoteric Order of Dagon
NICOLAS BRESINSKY
Edward Morse, The Isles of Shoals and Other
Innsmouth Inspiration
CHARLES GERARD
Shadows of Polynesia
CHRIS HUTH
Innsmouth Curios, The Wreck of the Elizabeth Wright
BRET KRAMER
Various Articles
BEN WENHAM
Innsmouth Curios
layout
CHRIS HUTH
illustrations
CHRIS HUTH, IAN MACLEAN,
JOSHUA MEADOWS,
and
GALEN PEJEAU
cartography
RICHARD LEDUC
handouts
DEAN ENGELHARDT
proofreading
CHITIN PROCTOR
Page 6, Marae sur l’île de Huahine (Polynésie française) by Michel-Georges Bernard
Page 39, “The volcanic ‘log’ city of Nan Madol”; smwd0023, NOAA’s Small World Collection
Photographer: Lieutenant Commander Matthew Wingate, NOAA Corps
The
Issue 2
sentinel
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press
licensed by
chaosium inc.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Deep Background:
Locations in Greater Innsmouth
From the History Books:
Shadows of Polynesia
Deep Background:
Innsmouth’s Burying Grounds
New Location:
The Wreck of the
Elizabeth Wright
Arcane Etymology:
On The Name ‘Dagon’
Deep Background:
The Marine Abyss beyond Devil Reef
New Person:
Edward Morse
From the History Books:
The Isles of Shoals and Other
Innsmouth Inspiration
Curious New England:
The Sacred Cod
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The Biblio-file:
The Hymnal of the Esoteric Order of Dagon
The Biblio-file:
The Ponape Scripture
Curious New England:
The Feejee Mermaid
New Items:
Innsmouth Curios
Deep Background:
Innsmouth Gold
Gaming History:
Cancelled Innsmouth Books
Location Guide:
A Guide to Newburyport
Scenario:
Drawn from the Water
Annotated Scenario Bibliography:
Innsmouth
and Deep Ones
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All Rights Reserved.
Call of Cthulhu
is Chaosium’s role-playing game of wonder
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They had talked about dying and half-deserted Innsmouth for
nearly a century, and nothing new could be wilder or more
hideous than what they had whispered and hinted years before.
Welcome back to Innsmouth!
We are pleased to present the revised and expanded
second issue of the Arkham Gazette. The focus of this issue
is Innsmouth, that desolate and half-deserted port town at
the mouth of the Manuxet. We invite you to explore this
benighted old town through the eighteen articles of this
issue, where we talk about topics as diverse as:
Polynesian culture in Innsmouth
Innsmouth’s burying grounds
Real world inspirations and parallels for Innsmouth
Massachusetts’ “Sacred Cod”
Ponape Scripture
The
Feejee “mermaid”
The
Innsmouth’s gold
guide to Newburyport
A
annotated list of Innsmouth scenarios
An
“Drawn from the Water,” an Innsmouth-connected
scenario of mystery and madness
So take your seat on Joe Sargent’s bus and enjoy on a ride
to fear-shadowed Innsmouth… Here’s hoping you live to
see the dawn.
Bret Kramer
May 2018
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Locations in Greater Innsmouth • Skivern Rock Lighthouse
Locations in Greater Innsmouth
by Bret Kramer
Deep Background
Skivern Rock
Lighthouse (1014)
Southeast of Innsmouth in Innsmouth Harbor
I
Source:
“The Occulted Light,”
Before the Fall
p. 48 by
Lucya Szachnowski and Gary O’Connell
nnsmouth has had two lighthouses — the
Old
Lighthouse (I904),
aka
the Innsmouth Harbor Light,
and the Skivern Rock Light. The former collapsed
during the Great Blizzard of 1888. The later still stands,
but has been abandoned for decades.
Skivern Rock and the surrounding reefs have been
recognized as a hazard to navigation since the earliest visits
to the area by European sailors; Captain John Smith made
mention of it as “a shoale near to this place [Plum Island],
made up of a great twin rock, with eddys and forceful
currents.” The rock, still unnamed, was cited as the cause
of numerous shipwrecks on the approach to Innsmouth
throughout the Colonial period. According to one Colonial
source the natives called the place
Katumaketic,
“where the
rocks are met by the ocean.”
The origin of the rock’s name is unclear. The earliest
record of its use come from a property dispute involving
the owners of the ship
Constance
in 1699: “ye hull was
breech’d by ye Skiverin Rock sou-sou’east of the Port of
Innsmouth yet sunk off ye Mother Ann one day later.”
One possible origin is suggested by the authors of
Folgers’ Sailor’s Atlas of New England,
who suggest it
was named for the Scottish sea captain Charles Skillven
whose ship,
The Cormorant,
foundered off the southern tip
of Plum Island in 1722. Another origin for the name is
given by Professor Elmer Pitts-Derby in his monograph
Massachusetts Light-Houses, from Boston Harbor to Points
North
(1896), in which he points out that in most
Scandinavian languages the word
skiven
means ‘round’. He
then tries to use this as proof of Viking visitation to the
Massachusetts coast, though how this ‘Viking’ name was
passed on to English colonists, or why this irregular rock
was named ‘round’ is not explained.
Whatever the case, the rock and surrounding shoals
were a hazard to navigation and, in 1745, a committee of
Innsmouth merchants petitioned the colonial governor to
place a light here, as had been done in Boston harbor decades
earlier. With no funds forthcoming, the Innsmouthers
privately established a small beacon and bell here in 1750.
Repeated petitions to the Massachusetts colonial (and
later state) government were finally answered when funds
were allotted in 1810 for the establishment of a lighthouse.
Unfortunately, the outbreak of hostilities with Great
Britain delayed the construction of the light until 1819.
A bell and cannon system was also established at
that time due to the persistent foul weather that would
often obscure Skivern Rock and its surrounding reefs.
In 1824 the first two keepers of the lighthouse were
tragically drowned while loading the fog cannon. The
lighthouse itself was badly damaged in the same storm
and was replaced by the 80-foot-tall brick lighthouse
still standing today. This structure proved inadequate as a
significant number of ships continued to founder in the
vicinity for the next decade. Dark rumors suggested the
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