The Shadow over Innsmouth

A student on a tour of New England discovers the decaying seaport of Innsmouth, a town loathed by its neighbors and populated by people with a strange, amphibian look. He uncovers a dark pact made generations ago with entities from the sea, trading prosperity for genetic corruption. The story features a harrowing escape sequence and a twisted ending of self-discovery. It is a definitive tale of biological degeneration and the inevitability of ancestry.