Renowned illustrator and comic artist, Mark A. Nelson, spent years researching the legends surrounding the "fictional" town of Innsmouth, Mass, and discovered evidence that an artist, named Mannish Sycovia,traveled from revolutionary Russia to Innsmouth in 1914 to create portraits of the Innsmouth elite. Following the 1927 demolition of the town by the U.S. Army after an aggressive bootlegging raid, the artist was never heard from again. Only rumors and fishy stories remained until Nelson stumbled upon a hand-made portfolio housing the lost drawings of the denizens of Innsmouth.