Kingsport is a fictional town created by H. P. Lovecraft, an archaic seaside village in Massachusetts that serves as an integral part of Lovecraft Country.
Geography[]
North of Kingsport is a famous stretch of cliffs that break at the Kingsport Head for the mouth of the Miskatonic River before following the coast up just short of the Manuxet in Innsmouth. Other named cliffs include Father Neptune and The Causeway.
History[]
In the early 19th century, local fishermen sailed their sloops to Innsmouth, following rumours of fish swarming the harbour, but they never returned. (HPL: The Shadow Over Innsmouth)
Locations[]
- Water Street - The seafront home of the Terrible Old Man. (HPL: "The Terrible Old Man")
- Ship Street - A road of tiny gambrel-roofed homes parallel to Water Street.
- Hall School
- The Strange High House in the Mist - An infamous house atop Kingsport Head, visible from both Kingsport and the northern road into Innsmouth.
Residents[]
- Granny Orne - an old woman who lives on Water Street.
- Asenath Waite - A student at the Hall School who later moved to Arkham after marrying Edward Derby.
- Thomas Olney - A professor who spent a summer in Kingsport.
Expanded Mythos[]
- The Kingsport Horror expansion for the board game Arkham Horror centres around players travelling to Kingsport.
In Other Fiction[]
Kingsport is also the name of the supernatural town featured in Carl Jacobi's short story "Chameleon Town", published in the Arkham House anthology Nameless Places. Jacobi's Kingsport is located somewhere in the USA's East Coast, apparently to the south of New York, and is also known by the alternative name Kingsboro. It's unknown if this is intended to be the same Kingsport from the Cthulhu Mythos, but characters who visited it have witnessed scenes from the past (apparently a form of "psychic residue"), similar to what the narrator experiences in Lovecraft's "The Festival".