by Mari Ness

RE: Survey yields unexpected treasure

Whatever happened to respecting the dead?  Does no one remember how many sailors and women have perished out on Black Reef?

In my day, when we found anything left from a shipwreck, or clearly from historical times, we left it there, out of respect for the dead. But now, Arkham’s divers are just pulling stuff off the reef, without even bothering to find out why the necklace is there. What if it was still around someone’s neck when it reached…

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by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Dear Editors,

I read with interest the interview that appeared recently in your paper about Janette Zang, author of The Big Book of Supernatural Americana. Miss Zang mentioned an incident that occurred in the 1860s, when a rain of stones fell on the house of a young woman named Katja Rilke. Miss Zang makes two crucial mistakes in the telling of this story: she says no other similar phenomena occurred in the area after the incident and claims the accusations of witchcraft levied against Katja…

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by Samuel Zane Farrell

Listen up, ghouls and girls: Janette Zang, author of The Big Book of Supernatural Americana and Thirteen Most Haunted Houses of America, will be in town next week to promote her latest book, Possession and Witchcraft in New England.

Keep sending us your weirdest, most bizarre ghost stories. The Innsmouth local with the scariest tale of them all gets a signed copy of the book and dinner with Janette at one of Innsmouth’s most exclusive restaurants, all courtesy of Innsmouth Free Press!

So, keep writing those…

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by Mari Ness

I couldn’t believe it when I read that NOAA had given Arkham University a grant to monitor Devil’s Reef. With the economy collapsing, crime rates accelerating, and unemployment rates rising, this is what the federal government is choosing to waste its money on?

I’ve been fishing in the harbor for the last twenty years, and I can assure you, Innsmouth Harbor and Devil’s Reef have plenty of fish. And ghost crabs, and clams, and shrimp, and other shellfish. I’ve even lost nets out there,…

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by Mari Ness

After hearing that Arkham University has received a grant to monitor and study Devil’s Reef, I headed out to the reef to do some scuba diving to see what all the fuss is about. And, wow. It’s an incredibly beautiful place. Scuba diving there is like discovering a new world, one dark and strange.

But as I peered into little nooks and crannies of the reef, marveling at the great white tube worms, and dozens of tiny white crabs scampering across the rock, I…

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By Deborah Walker

Dear Editor,

Am I the only one to be disturbed by the preponderance of hooded children on our fair Innsmouth streets? Why, oh why, do our children feel the need to cover their faces.

I believe the term used is hoodies. It is a fashion that has been condemned throughout the whole of the UnitedStates of America. I am disturbed to see many of our older children following this unwholesome trend.

I am ninety-eight years old. It may surprise some of your younger readers to hear…

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