![]() ![]() Lovecraft builds the tension with skill as the story moves forward and we are made to wonder what they are doing. He is assisting his grandfather with the care of something believed to be kept hidden in their farmhouse. ![]() From Lovecraft’s descriptions, Wilbur is a weird, unsettling character who is shunned by the Dunwich locals. The synopsis above sums up the first half of the story pretty well. It has been a long time since I read this story, so I was pleased that I couldn’t remember much about it apart from the name “Wilbur Whateley.” I went through a Lovecraft phase when I was a teenager, enjoying the strange atmosphere of the stories before I had any idea about cosmic horror or weird fiction. This is the first post in my Halloween Reads 2020 series, so I wanted to open with a classic tale of terror from Mister purple prose himself, H.P. All the while, his sorcerer grandfather indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade. ![]() Lovecraft’s, “The Dunwich Horror”, we are told the story of Wilbur Whateley, the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by the mad Old Whateley as “Yog-Sothoth”), and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development. ![]() Cover Artist: Howard Winters from the 1972 Lancer edition ![]()
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