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Originally Posted by David Johnston
The inspiration was The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft. Not only do the "Atlanteans" have all the physical characteristics of Deep Ones, including the ability to interbreed with humans to product young who start out seeming human and become more froggy as they age, but they also have a Dread of swastikas, and in The Shadow Over Innsmouth Zadok Allen says the Elder Sign looks like a swastika. Additionally, the "real-life" Innsmouth, Lovecraft's inspiration for it, was the run-down (by the 20th century) town of Newburyport, which in Leviathan was the site of the first invasion by the ocean-dwellers.
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Agreed, but T's point remains valid. The 'A'Nthleioi are distinguished from the Deep Ones by their use of high technology. The m.o. described in Infinite Worlds brings to mind the unnamed aliens in Wyndham's
The Kraken Wakes. Leviathan, in this line of thinking, might be associated with the Kraken by the Milton-Tennyson connection.