Here is Darkest Endeavors first debut creation:
In the fall of 1927, Federal Treasury Agents performed a raid on a small rundown town off the coast of Massachusetts known as Innsmouth. While the place may have been only a blip to the government, it was well known to all the other residents of Essex County, citizens of Arkham and Ipswich and Salem, who knew of the town's strange beliefs, a cult that was reputed to even have its members engage in conjugation with the strange things they worshipped. Whether or not any of it was true, now that was the hearsay. All anyone knew for certain was that there was definitely something off about the citzens of Innsmouth, with their dilapidated houses yawning out over the streets and their surly attitudes towards strangers, and the fetid smell which permeated even the rich salt air of the town. If a person was to have Innsmouth blood in them, they kept it a secret.
Intrigued by the stories they had heard for years, several scientists from the nearby Miskatonic University in Arkham undertook a trip to the town and managed to procure a malformed fetus, hardly bearing any semblance of humanity left. They hid their deeds right under the nose of the Feds themselves, being as careful as they could.
And this specimen box is what has been sitting in the back room of the Biology Department of Miskatonic University ever since. It is filled with an odd assortment of items that tell a story--a story that makes the very marrow run cold in the bones.
Included in this VINTAGE SPECIMEN KIT:
1) The lovely excelsior filled box, bearing an old Miskatonic Unversity Department of Biology label.
2) A set of forceps and other scientific equipment held in a lovely black leather case.
3) A copy of a 1927 map of Massachusetts from a Gazeteer in my own library and mounted on finest linen cardstock.
4) The headline torn from the February 1928 edition of the Arkham Call tabloid detailing the raid on Innsmouth.
5) A postcard from the Gilman House Hotel, a famed spot in old Innsmouth and the very same location as where the protagonist of The Shadow Over Innsmouth nearly met his demise.
6) An envelope bearing a strange star-shaped symbol with a fiery eye in the center; it is unknown of its purpose but it does help one maintain rationality when looking at the items in this box.
7) A bus ticket from Arkham to Innsmouth, exactly like what would have been available to the protagonist of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
8) A two-page letter from the Harvard University Department of Pathological Medicine detailing their findings on the specimen recovered by the Miskatonic scientists.
9) An old portrait believed to be of one Captain Obed Marsh, the man responsible for bringing the supposed Dagon Cult to Innsmouth.
And lastly--
10) The coup de grace of this Vintage Specimen Box: the Malformed Fetus of a Deep One, preserved for posterity.
H.P. Lovecraft, the famed early twentieth century horror writer who also brought us such fouls things as the Necronomicon and Great Cthulhu himself, weaves one of the eeriest tales ever written in the horror genre in The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a tale which has been told time and again in movies, comics and video games, and which is lovingly retold in this Vintage Specimen Box. If you're a fan of steampunk, horror, pickled punks, scientific oddities, or any and all of them, you owe it to yourself to acquire this one-of-a-kind art piece.
In the fall of 1927, Federal Treasury Agents performed a raid on a small rundown town off the coast of Massachusetts known as Innsmouth. While the place may have been only a blip to the government, it was well known to all the other residents of Essex County, citizens of Arkham and Ipswich and Salem, who knew of the town's strange beliefs, a cult that was reputed to even have its members engage in conjugation with the strange things they worshipped. Whether or not any of it was true, now that was the hearsay. All anyone knew for certain was that there was definitely something off about the citzens of Innsmouth, with their dilapidated houses yawning out over the streets and their surly attitudes towards strangers, and the fetid smell which permeated even the rich salt air of the town. If a person was to have Innsmouth blood in them, they kept it a secret.
Intrigued by the stories they had heard for years, several scientists from the nearby Miskatonic University in Arkham undertook a trip to the town and managed to procure a malformed fetus, hardly bearing any semblance of humanity left. They hid their deeds right under the nose of the Feds themselves, being as careful as they could.
And this specimen box is what has been sitting in the back room of the Biology Department of Miskatonic University ever since. It is filled with an odd assortment of items that tell a story--a story that makes the very marrow run cold in the bones.
Included in this VINTAGE SPECIMEN KIT:
1) The lovely excelsior filled box, bearing an old Miskatonic Unversity Department of Biology label.
2) A set of forceps and other scientific equipment held in a lovely black leather case.
3) A copy of a 1927 map of Massachusetts from a Gazeteer in my own library and mounted on finest linen cardstock.
4) The headline torn from the February 1928 edition of the Arkham Call tabloid detailing the raid on Innsmouth.
5) A postcard from the Gilman House Hotel, a famed spot in old Innsmouth and the very same location as where the protagonist of The Shadow Over Innsmouth nearly met his demise.
6) An envelope bearing a strange star-shaped symbol with a fiery eye in the center; it is unknown of its purpose but it does help one maintain rationality when looking at the items in this box.
7) A bus ticket from Arkham to Innsmouth, exactly like what would have been available to the protagonist of The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
8) A two-page letter from the Harvard University Department of Pathological Medicine detailing their findings on the specimen recovered by the Miskatonic scientists.
9) An old portrait believed to be of one Captain Obed Marsh, the man responsible for bringing the supposed Dagon Cult to Innsmouth.
And lastly--
10) The coup de grace of this Vintage Specimen Box: the Malformed Fetus of a Deep One, preserved for posterity.
H.P. Lovecraft, the famed early twentieth century horror writer who also brought us such fouls things as the Necronomicon and Great Cthulhu himself, weaves one of the eeriest tales ever written in the horror genre in The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a tale which has been told time and again in movies, comics and video games, and which is lovingly retold in this Vintage Specimen Box. If you're a fan of steampunk, horror, pickled punks, scientific oddities, or any and all of them, you owe it to yourself to acquire this one-of-a-kind art piece.
