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The Dunwich Horror
| Author: | H. P. Lovecraft |
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Weird Tales, 1929 |
| Series: | Cthulhu Mythos |
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| Book Type: | Novelette |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos Monsters Gothic |
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Synopsis
Set in the rural wilderness of western Massachusetts, "The Dunwich Horror" follows one Wilbur Whateley, the bastard offspring of a family devoted to worshipping to "Great Old Ones" and to studying the Necronomicon, Lovecraft's fictional grimoire full of forsaken lore and magic. Whateley is ultimately defeated by Professor Warren Rice and Dr. Francis Morgan, two representatives of Lovecraft's many scholarly protagonists. "The Dunwich Horror" is notable not only for its use of anachronistic Yankee dialects, but also its numerous references to the fictional Miskatonic University and the superstition surrounding whip-poor-wills.
This short story originally appeared in Weird Tales in 1929. It has been anthologized many times, including the anthology Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Phyllis Fraser and Herbert A. Wise, and has also been included in a myriad of collections, including the collections Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft and The Dunwich Horror and Others.
The Dunwich Horror is the basis for several films of the same name.
The April 1929 issue of Weird Tales containing "The Dunwich Horror" is available free on Internet Archives.
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