Lovecraft, H P & Greene, Sonia - The Horror At Martin's Beach

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The Horror at Martin’s Beach
The Horror at Martin's Beach
by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene
Written June 1922
Published November 1923 in Weird Tales, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 75-76, 83
I have never heard an even approximately adequate explanation of the horror at Martin's
Beach. Despite the large number of witnesses, no two accounts agree; and the testimony
taken by local authorities contains the most amazing discrepancies.
Perhaps this haziness is natural in view of the unheard-of character of the horror itself,
the almost paralytic terror of all who saw it, and the efforts made by the fashionable
Wavecrest Inn to hush it up after the publicity created by Prof. Ahon's article "Are
Hypnotic Powers Confined to Recognized Humanity?"
Against all these obstacles I am striving to present a coherent version; for I beheld the
hideous occurrence, and believe it should be known in view of the appalling possibilities
it suggests. Martin's Beach is once more popular as a watering-place, but I shudder when
I think of it. Indeed, I cannot look at the ocean at all now without shuddering.
Fate is not always without a sense of drama and climax, hence the terrible happening of
August 8, 1922, swiftly followed a period of minor and agreeably wonder-fraught
excitement at Martin's Beach. On May 17 the crew of the fishing smack Alma of
Gloucester, under Capt. James P. Orne, killed, after a battle of nearly forty hours, a
marine monster whose size and aspect produced the greatest possible stir in scientific
circles and caused certain Boston naturalists to take every precaution for its taxidermic
preservation.
The object was some fifty feet in length, of roughly cylindrical shape, and about ten feet
in diameter. It was unmistakably a gilled fish in its major affiliations; but with certain
curious modifications such as rudimentary forelegs and six-toed feet in place of pectoral
fins, which prompted the widest speculation. Its extraordinary mouth, its thick and scaly
hide, and its single, deep-set eye were wonders scarcely less remarkable than its colossal
dimensions; and when the naturalists pronounced it an infant organism, which could not
have been hatched more than a few days, public interest mounted to extraordinary
heights.
Capt. Orne, with typical Yankee shrewdness, obtained a vessel large enough to hold the
object in its hull, and arranged for the exhibition of his prize. With judicious carpentry he
prepared what amounted to an excellent marine museum, and, sailing south to the
wealthy resort district of Martin's Beach, anchored at the hotel wharf and reaped a harvest
of admission fees.
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TheHorroratMartin’sBeachTheHorroratMartin'sBeachbyH.P.LovecraftandSoniaH.GreeneWrittenJune1922PublishedNovember1923inWeirdTales,Vol.2,No.4,p.75-76,83IhaveneverheardanevenapproximatelyadequateexplanationofthehorroratMartin'sBeach.Despitethelargenumberofwitnesses,notwoaccountsagree;andthetestimonytake...

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