Innsmouth Legacy

The Innsmouth Legacy is a Cthulhu Mythos fiction series by Ruthanna Emrys, focusing on the survivors of the government raids on Innsmouth depicted in H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Emrys, expanding on Lovecraft's twist ending, presents the deep ones not as inhuman monsters but as sympathetic members of the human family, co-equal with what she refers to as the "people of the air."
In Emrys' series, worship of the Mythos entities is a religion known as Aeonism, one that can be followed by genuine spiritual seekers as well as apocalyptic nihilists.
The books follow Aphra Marsh, a daughter of the Marsh family, who is one of the two survivors of the internment camps that the Innsmouth population was sent to. In this setting, they were released in 1946 alongside the victims of the real-life Japanese internment. Aphra is then recruited by Jewish FBI agent (and closeted gay man) Ron Spector to investigate Aeonist activity across the country. He believes that it is possible to separate the good from the bad among the cults and ritualists while Aphra simply wishes to make contact with those who share her religion. Events will bring them into contact and conflict with multiple Lovecraftian cults and entities with a twist.
Other recurring characters include her brother Caleb Marsh, her friend and employer Charlie Day, a possession victim of the Yith named Trumbull, her adopted sister Neko, and a Miskatonic student named Audrey Winslow.
==Works==
*The Litany of Earth (Tor, 2014)
*Winter Tide (Tor, 2017)
*Deep Roots (Tor, 2018)
Category:Ruthanna Emrys Works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Story Cycles