The Taint

"The Taint" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Brian Lumley, written in December 2002/January 2003, and first published in Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (Fedogan & Bremer, 2005).
== Synopsis ==
A retired American doctor who once worked in Innsmouth comes to live at a seaside village in Cornwall where some of the locals have a familiar genetic condition.
== Publication History ==
After its initial appearance in Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, "The Taint" was reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 17 (Carrol & Graf/Robinson, 2006), and served as the title story for Lumley's collection The Taint and Other Novellas (Subterranean Press, 2007).
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