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This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. This subject contains information from the "Lovecraft Circle" Myth Cycles, and while guided by HPL are not based on his work alone. "Dead Giveaway" is a short story by J. Vernon Shea, first published in the May 1976 issue of Outré magazine. It describes the goings-on on Halloween in Old Dethshill Cemetery, located near Innsmouth.

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"Dead Giveaway" was reprinted in In Search of Lovecraft, a collection of Shea's work published by Necronomicon Press (1991), and in the anthology The New Lovecraft Circle (Fedogan & Bremer, 1996).