The game is a combined retelling of The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shadow Out of Time, with the latter used as a framing device for the former.The Greek copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts, known as the Pnakotica, appears in the game.On a shelf in the protagonist's office, a copy of Unaussprechlichen Kulten and the Book of Eibon can be seen.Most of the texts are directly tied to Dagon, such as his Book, Oaths, Tablets, and prayers."The Music of Erich Zann" is alluded to in a newspaper clipping. Obed Marsh's descendants play a large and prominent role in the story.A few fictional members of the Waite family ("The Thing on the Doorstep") are part of the story.One of the jailhouse inmates, Henry, complains of rats in the walls, as taken from Lovecraft's short story The Rats in the Walls.A direct reference to the short story The Whisperer in Darkness can be seen in the first level, where a cultist is found bound to a surgical table, his organs dissected from his body, yet still functioning in containers attached by tubes to his body.Although not related to the Mythos, the character of Agent Mackey has a notable physical resemblance to H.P. Zadok Allen provides the protagonist with a detailed recent history of the town, but is killed and thrown to the sewers to be fed to a Shoggoth. He meets undercover agent Lucas Mackey, who tells him that the town is under government investigation. From that point forward, he is forced to sneak through the town, avoiding the murderous patrols of the townsfolk. After asking the rude locals about the disappearance of Brian Burnham, he stays a night at the local hotel, where he barely escapes an attempt to murder him. He takes up a missing person case at Innsmouth, a strange and xenophobic coastal town. More than six years later, Walters is released and returns to life as a private detective. He is committed to Arkham Asylum, where he stays for several years. When the rest of the police finally break in, they find the cultists dead by mass suicide and Walters apparently insane. Taking cover from an ensuing firefight, Jack finds himself separated from the police and trapped inside the mansion, with no option but to investigate. The manor is inhabited by a small cult called the Fellowship of the Yith, led by one Victor Holt. On September 6, 1915, Detective Jack Walters is called to investigate a decrepit manor house located in Boston, Massachusetts. However, due to the bankruptcy and liquidation of Headfirst in 2006, these games were effectively canceled A major sub-plot of the game is also inspired by Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Out of Time.At least two and possibly three additional Cthulhu Mythos games were planned by Headfirst Productions, including the direct sequel to Dark Corners titled Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End. Although the story diverges in several places and features a different protagonist, several levels in the game mirror passages from the novella. It is a re-imagining of Lovecraft's novella " The Shadow over Innsmouth", also containing elements from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game campaign "Escape from Innsmouth". Lovecraft, author of The Call of Cthulhu and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos. Is a Lovecraftian horror first-person action-adventure game developed by Headfirst Productions and published by The game is based on the works of H. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
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