Kingsport

An antique coastal town in Massachusetts, located on the east coast of Massachussetts. As you proceed south from Innsmouth and the mouth of the Manuxet, there is a long line of cliffs that culminate in Kingsport Head, before veering off toward Cape Ann [HPL Innsmouth (online text)].

One of the pleasant backwoods roads north of town leads past Hooper's Pond. Arkham is inland and to the northwest [Mist (online text)]. The distant spires of Kingsport are visible from the hills behind Arkham [Gates (online text)]. The distant spires of Kingsport are visible from Randolph Carter's childhood home and from the home of his mother's family, near the crumbling farmhouse of old Goody Fowler the witch [Silver (online text)].

The people of Kingsport love some of the cliffs along the coast just to the north, such as one whose grotesque profile they call Father Neptune, and one whose pillared steps they term The Causeway; but they fear the tallest cliff because it is so near the sky. There stands the Strange High House in the Mist, and the locals believe the same One has lived there for hundreds of years [Mist].

Basil Elton was the keeper of the North Point Light in ancient Kingsport [Kadath (online text)].

Kingsport is hoary with stacked chimneys and deserted quays and overhanging gables, tall steeples and winding hill streets, and the marvel of high cliffs and the milky-misted ocean with tolling buoys beyond [Kadath]. The old Congregational steeple on Central Hill was a prominent landmark, but has long since been torn down to make room for the Congregational Hospital [Silver] and its graveyard, beneath which rumour said some terrible caves or burrows lurked [Mist].

The narrator of The Festival found the home of his people in Kingsport: the seventh house on the left in Green Lane, with an ancient peaked roof and jutting second story, all built before 1650. His people were apparently witches, of whom four were hanged for witchcraft in 1692. [Festival (online text)]. In the 1700s, John Merritt heard monstrous things whispered of the Necronomicon after the exposure of nameless rites at the strange little fishing village of Kingsport [Case (online text)].

Kingsport has a harbour [Festival (online text)]. In the 1800's, fishermen from Kingsport came in sloops to try to catch the abundant fish off Innsmouth, but the fishermen disappeared and were never seen again [Innsmouth (online text)].

The Terrible Old Man, a living embodiment of New England's past, dwelled all alone in a very ancient house on Water Street, with a back gate in Ship Street near the sea. But the town's inhabitants also included new and heterogeneous immigrant stock, such as Joe Czanek, Angelo Ricci, and Manuel Silva (until their untimely demise). [Terrible (online text)] Granny Orne had a tiny gambrel-roofed abode in Ship Street, all covered with moss and ivy [Mist]. Asenath Waite attended Hall School at Kingsport, along with the daughter of a friend of Daniel Upton [Doorstep (online text)].

Kuranes thought that Randolph Carter would not benefit from finding the marvellous sunset city in dreamland, but would long for early remembered scenes, such as Kingsport. Nyarlathotep said that the marvellous dream city was the sum of Carter's earlier memories of places such as antediluvian Kingsport. [Kadath]

A man claiming to be Cousin Frank Osborne said he was from Kingsport. Willie Osborne had a letter from Cousin Osborne addressed from Kingsport. [RB Notebook (online text)]

Enoch Conger sold his fish in Kingsport [AWD Fisherman]. Jedediah Tyndal's body was found in the Kingsport country [Lurker]. Luther Whateley's papers included postcards from Kingsport [Shuttered]. Abel Harrop had netting of the type used in seines along the coast at Kingsport for the purpose of catching rough fish [Whippoorwills].

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