"Innsmouth Gold"

by David Sutton
originally published Shadows Over Innsmouth, 1994

George, a teacher and wildlife photographer, borrows some equipment and a truck from a friend and journeys to the marshes around Innsmouth, where he's convinced the feds buried gold confiscated in the 1928 raids.

The marshes turn out to be spooky as hell.  George eventually makes his way into town, where he's accosted by Deep One hybrids.  He escapes and clears out.  Good thing, too! Those hybrids were female, and --- omg what they would have done to him!!!!

A quite stupid story despite some nice buildup.  There's no rationale for George's belief that there would be gold buried in the swamps (why would the feds do that, rather than simply take it), and Sutton can't even keep up a consistent narrative voice - one minute George sounds like a Lovecraftian intellectual, the next a reg'lar Joe.