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"The Dunwich Horror" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in , it was first published in the April issue of Weird Tales (pp.
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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. For other renewal records of publications between — see the University of Pennsylvania copyright records scans. For all records since , search the U. Copyright Office records.
Public domain Public domain false false. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Edit View history. Display Options. Written in , it was first published in the April issue of Weird Tales pp. It takes place in Dunwich , a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Lovecraft, letter to August Derleth, August 4, , cited in Joshi, p. One such legend is the notion that whippoorwills can capture the departing soul. Joshi, p. In another letter, Lovecraft wrote that Dunwich is "a vague echo of the decadent Massachusetts countryside around Springfield--say Wilbraham, Monson and Hampden.
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III, pp. Robert M. Price notes that "much of the physical description of the Dunwich countryside is a faithful sketch of Wilbraham," citing a passage from a letter from Lovecraft to Zealia Bishop that "sounds like a passage from 'The Dunwich Horror' itself":. But researchers have pointed out the story's apparent connections to another Massachusetts region: the area around Athol and points south, in the north-central part of the state which is where Lovecraft indicates that Dunwich is located. It has been suggested that the name "Dunwich," was inspired by the town of Greenwich, which was deliberately flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir Charles P.
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Lovecraft Filmography p. Donald R. Burleson points out that several names included in the story--including Bishop, Frye, Sawyer, Rice and Morgan--are either prominent Athol names or have a connection to the town's history. The Bear's Den mentioned in the story resembles an actual cave of the same name visited by Lovecraft in North New Salem, southwest of Athol. New Salem, like Dunwich, was founded by settlers from Salem--though in , not The book, which Lovecraft seems to have read, also describes noises emanating from the earth near Moodus, Connecticut, which are similar to the Dunwich sounds decried by Rev.
Abijah Hoadley. Both Machen stories concern individuals whose death throes reveal them to be only half-human in their parentage.
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According to Robert M. Price , "'The Dunwich Horror' is in every sense an homage to Machen and even a pastiche. There is little in Lovecraft's wonderful story that does not come directly out of Machen's fiction. The name Dunwich itself may come from Machen's The Terror , where the name refers to an English town where the titular entity is seen hovering as "a black cloud with sparks of fire in it".
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Price, p. Lovecraft also seems to have found inspiration in Anthony M. Rud's story "Ooze" published in Weird Tales , March , which also involved a monster being secretly kept and fed in a house that it subsequently bursts out of and destroys. Joshi, pp. The tracks of Wilbur's brother recall those seen in Algernon Blackwood 's "The Wendigo", one of Lovecraft's favorite horror stories, Joshi, pp. Lovecraft took pride in "The Dunwich Horror", calling it "so fiendish that [ Weird Tales ] editor Farnsworth Wright may not dare to print it.
Lovecraft, Selected Letters Vol. II, p. Lovecraft biographer Lin Carter calls the story "an excellent tale He would have been a better choice than Ronald Colman. Incidentally, why is Dunwich pronounced Dunnitch in the radio play and Dun-witch by the podcasters?
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