The "Dunwich Horror" is a 1928 short story by cult-favorite horror author H.P. Lovecraft. The story is one of many Lovecraft stories in the "Cthulhu Mythos," a group of stories within the same universe where occasionally humans encounter the existence of ancient beings known as the Old Ones. "The Dunwich Horror" is a recollection regarding a young man named WIlbur Whateley, who was born to an albino mother, impregnated by the Old One, Yog-Shothoth. After the boy's birth, the town became the home of strange noises. The story goes on to reveal the existence of a second offspring of the Old One after Wilbur's death. Eventually, a final confrontation takes place between three university professors and the offspring, the Dunwich Horror.
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is widely considered the most important literary supernaturalist of the twentieth century. He is one of the greatest in a line of authors that originated with the Gothic no...
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"Nothing," H. P. Lovecraft once wrote, "has ever seemed to fascinate me so much as the thought of some curious interruption in the prosaic laws of nature, or some monstrous intrusions on our familiar ...
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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
