In a story titled for one of these things “at the Bottom of the World,” townspeople rip apart a scarecrow and discover a dark fungus twisted into the form of a man. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this thing that hangs “over Innsmouth” in the title of an H. P. Lovecraft novella that concerns a cult that forces people to breed with the Deep Ones, reflecting Lovecraft’s fear of miscegenation.
ANSWER: shadow [accept The Shadow over Innsmouth; accept “The Shadow at the Bottom of the World”]
[10h] “The Shadow at the Bottom of the World” appears in this writer’s collection Grimscribe: His Lives and Works. This American weird fiction writer wrote Songs of a Dead Dreamer.
ANSWER: Thomas Ligotti
[10m] Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time is narrated by a professor at this fictional university in Arkham. Scholars from this university travel to Antarctica in At the Mountains of Madness.
ANSWER: Miskatonic University
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