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  • The Dunwich Horror
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  • "The Dunwich Horror" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. "The Dunwich Horror" is one of the few tales Lovecraft wrote wherein the heroes successfully defeat the antagonistic entity or monster of the story.
  • - Charles Lamb: Witches and Other Night-Fears
  • The Dunwich Horror is the title given to an entity from the short story of the same name, which is part of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The Dunwich Horror is a partially human monstrosity created when Noah Whately supposedly invoked the entity Yog-Sothoth to impregnate his daughter with a being which would bring about the end of humanity and open up the gate for the Great Old Ones to once again roam the world. Unlike its brother, Wilbur Whately, the other twin was unable to pass for human. Not only did it supposedly "resemble its father" far more than Wilbur did, but it was also invisible to the naked eye. For years, it was kept in the Whately's barn, being fed animals as it continued to grow and change. Finally, the entity grew to a large enough size to burst from the barnhouse and go
  • The Dunwich Horror (1928) by H.P. Lovecraft Text copied from “Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras - dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies - may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition - but they were there before. They are transcripts, types - the archtypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury?
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Country
  • United States
Genre
  • Horror short story
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  • Print
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Language
  • English
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  • www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thedunwichhorror.htm
Preceded By
  • "Ibid"
Title
  • The Dunwich Horror
Release
  • April 1929
Publisher
  • Weird Tales
Followed By
  • "The Electric Executioner" with Adolphe de Castro
Year
  • 1928
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  • dagonbytes.com
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  • "The Dunwich Horror" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. "The Dunwich Horror" is one of the few tales Lovecraft wrote wherein the heroes successfully defeat the antagonistic entity or monster of the story.
  • - Charles Lamb: Witches and Other Night-Fears
  • The Dunwich Horror is the title given to an entity from the short story of the same name, which is part of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The Dunwich Horror is a partially human monstrosity created when Noah Whately supposedly invoked the entity Yog-Sothoth to impregnate his daughter with a being which would bring about the end of humanity and open up the gate for the Great Old Ones to once again roam the world. Unlike its brother, Wilbur Whately, the other twin was unable to pass for human. Not only did it supposedly "resemble its father" far more than Wilbur did, but it was also invisible to the naked eye. For years, it was kept in the Whately's barn, being fed animals as it continued to grow and change. Finally, the entity grew to a large enough size to burst from the barnhouse and go on a rampage through the countryside. The monster was eventually stopped by Professor Henry Armitage, who managed to destroy it via a spell from the ancient Necronomicon. The hideous creature's first and last words were a cry to help from its father before it was obliterated by a bolt of magical lightning.
  • The Dunwich Horror (1928) by H.P. Lovecraft Text copied from “Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras - dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies - may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition - but they were there before. They are transcripts, types - the archtypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older standing. They date beyond body - or without the body, they would have been the same... That the kind of fear here treated is purely spiritual - that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on earth, that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy - are difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable insight into our ante-mundane condition, and a peep at least into the shadowland of pre-existence.”