aquarium444
02-05-2010, 07:21 AM
I would like to write an outline for the short story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" written by H.P. Lovecraft.
This will be a work in progress. I will continue to update this thread post, and declare it final when the outline is complete. There is a very good dramatic audio recording of this story on iTunes, performed by the Atlanta Radio Theater. The first five minutes of the recording is a bit out of place if you listen to it for the first time, but keep going, and wow, what an amazing effort.
Here is the outline (feel free to comment or write your own version and compare):
The Shadow Over Innsmouth Outline
Link: Read the story online here. (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.asp)
Story Outline (section 1 of 5):
The narrator has escaped from a seaport called Innsmouth where a series of odd events occured. After his return to the main land, he pleads his case to the authorities. The area is subsequently investigated, leading to a military effort, and finally concluded with an abrupt campaign to silence information. In the aftermath, Innsmouth is held intact by a shadow of rumors. The narrator, waiting until now, decides to talk about his past ordeal. He has endured hardship that he thinks will preceed some long awaited last step.
His personal accounting of the events beigns in a place called Newburyport. He intends to travel directly by steam train from there to Arkham. The terminal agent suggests an alternate budget accomidation. It is a depricated route, viewed as a deture for including a site of long standing decline; the remote locale known as Innsmouth. Having no alternative solution, the narrator tries to gather more information.
Library sources reference a port city situated at the mouth of the Manuxet river, founded in 1643. Location of marine vessel manufacture, including a factory centre. All operations were reduced by civil strife and plague in the 1840's that afflicted the population. Contact with the mainland was limited to exports, including fish and lobsters, and ingots. An exotic museum piece of note, exists at the Newburyport Historical Society.
My week was too crummy to work on this. If I was to do it, I have time right now, but the week was too depressing. Investments, dentist, etc, just miserable. A person can't be expected to work on something nice when the week is in the gutter.
This will be a work in progress. I will continue to update this thread post, and declare it final when the outline is complete. There is a very good dramatic audio recording of this story on iTunes, performed by the Atlanta Radio Theater. The first five minutes of the recording is a bit out of place if you listen to it for the first time, but keep going, and wow, what an amazing effort.
Here is the outline (feel free to comment or write your own version and compare):
The Shadow Over Innsmouth Outline
Link: Read the story online here. (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.asp)
Story Outline (section 1 of 5):
The narrator has escaped from a seaport called Innsmouth where a series of odd events occured. After his return to the main land, he pleads his case to the authorities. The area is subsequently investigated, leading to a military effort, and finally concluded with an abrupt campaign to silence information. In the aftermath, Innsmouth is held intact by a shadow of rumors. The narrator, waiting until now, decides to talk about his past ordeal. He has endured hardship that he thinks will preceed some long awaited last step.
His personal accounting of the events beigns in a place called Newburyport. He intends to travel directly by steam train from there to Arkham. The terminal agent suggests an alternate budget accomidation. It is a depricated route, viewed as a deture for including a site of long standing decline; the remote locale known as Innsmouth. Having no alternative solution, the narrator tries to gather more information.
Library sources reference a port city situated at the mouth of the Manuxet river, founded in 1643. Location of marine vessel manufacture, including a factory centre. All operations were reduced by civil strife and plague in the 1840's that afflicted the population. Contact with the mainland was limited to exports, including fish and lobsters, and ingots. An exotic museum piece of note, exists at the Newburyport Historical Society.
My week was too crummy to work on this. If I was to do it, I have time right now, but the week was too depressing. Investments, dentist, etc, just miserable. A person can't be expected to work on something nice when the week is in the gutter.