The National Grocery chain store in Innsmouth provided one of the few friendly faces to be met by the narrator of Shadow Over Innsmouth - a lone boy worker who originally came from Arkham provided the narrator with advice and a rough map of the town. This store is set up in the corner portion of a building, with entries on two sides. The building is much patched and shows signs of later modification. A stairway around one side provides access to an upstairs storage room. The store is well lit, with pre-placed goods behind the counter. Based on an authentic photograph of a grocery store in the 1920s.
Who is HP Lovecraft? HP Lovecraft is an American horror writer who wrote primarily in the 1930s. His works included The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour from Space, The Dunwich Horror, Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Doom that Came to Sarnath and At the Mountains of Madness - many of works are referred to as being a part of the Cthulhu Mythos, a nihilistic universe of dark and unknowable threats to humanity. Many of his stories focused on the area of the New England town of Arkham and its Miskatonic University.