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I remember reading 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' late at night, in a bed, in a house by the sea. The scene near the end where the protagonist turns around, as he's trying to make his escape, to see a bunch of things swimming rapidly after him across the moonlit water chilled me to the bone. As I recall, and it's been a few years now, he'd only met, at that point, relatively 'normal' people, so the feeling that he'd finally provoked something completely alien and implacable was overpowering. I didn't want to look out the window, just in case I'd done the same by reading about it. A lot of his stuff is just plain weird, a lot distasteful, and he's often not all that 'scary', but whether it was context or not, Lovecraft really did for me then.
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