shadow - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

In a story titled for one of these things “at the Bottom of the World,” townspeople rip apart a scarecrow and discover a dark fungus twisted into the form of a man. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this thing that hangs “over Innsmouth” in the title of an H. P. Lovecraft novella that concerns a cult that forces people to breed with the Deep Ones, reflecting Lovecraft’s fear of miscegenation.

ANSWER: shadow [accept The Shadow over Innsmouth; accept “The Shadow at the Bottom of the World”]

[10h] “The Shadow at the Bottom of the World” appears in this writer’s collection Grimscribe: His Lives and Works. This American weird fiction writer wrote Songs of a Dead Dreamer.

ANSWER: Thomas Ligotti

[10m] Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time is narrated by a professor at this fictional university in Arkham. Scholars from this university travel to Antarctica in At the Mountains of Madness.

ANSWER: Miskatonic University

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Berkeley A	NYU	10	0	0	10
Brown	Toronto A	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	Columbia A	10	0	0	10
Chicago B	Cornell A	10	10	10	30
Chicago C	Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Chicago D	Kentucky	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	McGill	10	0	0	10
Duke	Columbia B	0	0	0	0
Florida	Toronto B	10	0	0	10
Illinois	Yale A	10	0	0	10
Indiana	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Iowa State	Michigan	10	0	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Maryland	0	10	0	10
North Carolina A	Waterloo	0	0	0	0
North Carolina B	Minnesota B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern	Georgia Tech	10	0	10	20
Penn	Arizona State	10	0	0	10
Rutgers	Yale B	10	0	0	10
Texas	Stanford	10	0	10	20
Truman State	Harvard	0	0	10	10
Vanderbilt	South Carolina	0	0	0	0
Virginia	Ottawa	0	0	0	0
WUSTL A	Purdue	10	0	0	10
WUSTL B	Claremont Colleges	10	0	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	24	10.83	71%	29%	8%