Lovecraft: The Haunter in the Dark

by H. P. Lovecraft

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  “Of the Shining Trapezohedron he speaks often, calling it a window on all time and space, and tracing its history from the days it was fashioned on dark Yuggoth, before ever the Old Ones brought it to earth. It was treasured and placed in its curious box by the crinoid things of Antarctica, salvaged from their ruins by the serpent-men of Valusia, and peered at aeons later in Lemuria by the first human beings. It crossed strange lands and stranger seas, and sank with Atlantis before a Minoan fisher meshed it in his net and sold it to swarthy merchants from nighted Khem. The Pharaoh Nephren-Ka built around it a temple with a windowless crypt, and did that which caused his name to be stricken from all monuments and records. Then it slept in the ruins of that evil fane which the priests and the new Pharaoh destroyed, till the delver’s spade once more brought it forth to curse mankind.”

Originally published in the 1936 December issue of Weird Tales and is the last written piece of literature that Lovecraft wrote which added to his Cthulhu Mythos. He died of a cancer in his small intestine in March of the following year. Sad to say, he died a disappointed man. Unable to make a real living with his writing, he lived on a starvation diet in his Aunt’s house the last years of his life.

Issue where the story was first published.

Adding to his misery, he was deeply affected by the suicide of his friend, Robert E. Howard- creator of Conan, Solomon Kane, Bran Mac Morn (all of which inhabit the Cthulhu universe by the way. The two would often intermingle their stories). As such, when they died both Howard and Lovecraft were under the impression that they would be forgotten. And like Kafka before them and Phillip K. Dick afterwards, how wrong they both were. Their true fame and influence would not blossom until some time after they had passed on.

Thus it is with a sense of sadness that I discuss Lovecraft’s last work, The Haunter in the Dark. This is a sequel to a story called, The Shambler from the Stars by Robert Bloch. A third story, written by Bloch in 1950, was published in The Shadow from the Steeple. This story revolves around a writer who investigates an old church in Providence, Rhode Island called the Church of Starry Wisdom. As you can guess, the place is a front for the evil worship of the Crawling Chaos, Nyarlathotep and the Outer Gods. One thing leads to another and an anceint evil is revealed. The dreaded Nyarlathotep himself emerges in a final performance for the writings of his creator, H. P. Lovecraft. This tale also adds a new element to the Mythos, the Shining Trapezohedron.

An object which was crafted by the Mi-Go on Yuggoth (or Pluto as we Humans call it) and is used to conjure up the unnamable horrors from beyond this world. It has appeared in numerous Bloch and Derelith stories as well as a King Kull tale by Robert E. Howard. In the real world, The Robert Bloch Award in the shape of the Shining Trapezohedron is presented at the annual Necronomicon convention.

Once again, very little has been done with this story in other media so I offer you the Horror Babble audiobook version along with a trailer for a film loosely based on the story. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor. 
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Lovecraft: The Shadow Out of Time

by H. P. Lovecraft

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“Primal myth and modern delusion joined in their assumption that mankind is only one—perhaps the least—of the highly evolved and dominant races of this planet’s long and largely unknown career. Things of inconceivable shape, they implied, had reared towers to the sky and delved into every secret of Nature before the first amphibian forbear of man had crawled out of the hot sea three hundred million years ago. Some had come down from the stars; a few were as old as the cosmos itself; others had arisen swiftly from terrene germs as far behind the first germs of our life-cycle as those germs are behind ourselves. Spans of thousands of millions of years, and linkages with other galaxies and universes, were freely spoken of. Indeed, there was no such thing as time in its humanly accepted sense.”

Probably the best of Lovecraft’s science fiction stories. Its tone, its flair, its literary panache keeps a reader gripped throughout the entire tale. It is an amazing mystery with a twist that you will never see coming. It is quite ingenious and original for its time at least. Yet, despite it’s brilliant crafting, the story has never been developed much into other mediums, except as a radio drama.

The story concerns a young man who loses five years of his life. He goes to sleep one night, only to wake up and find himself half a decade later. His wife has divorced him and his children refuse to see him. During his subsequent investigation of the past, he discovers that someone had taken possession of his body traveled all over the world, met strange people, and collected many obscure tomes - including the dreaded Necronomicon. Eventually his search leads him to a startling conclusion.

This story introduces my favorite of the Cthulhu races, The Great Race of Yith. An intelligent race that died out in the various millennia that makes up Earth’s pre-history before the dawn of man. This is the earliest of these recorded intelligent races, predating the Elder Things by millions of years. They are capable of projecting their minds through time to the future and past into the brains of other sentient beings and swap consciousnesses. This is how they gather their vast repertoire of information. Eventually the entire race travels through time as their civilization is about to be destroyed by a race of flying polyp creatures from another planet. They eventually inhabit the race which will inherit the Earth after mankind has gone extinct.

The Great Race of Yith

The Great Race, it is hinted, may be the actual writers of the Pnakotic Manuscripts- a series of tablets which predate humanity. In my mind, I still believe the Elder Things to be the ones who wrote these particular pieces of forbidden lore. This is simply due to the fact that the manuscripts make references to the Outer Gods and Azathoth, which the Elder Things are known to worship.

As I said above, there is almost thing done with this story in other mediums, so I will include an audio version of the story below. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor.

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Audiobook Version of the Story

Radio Drama of the Story



Lovecraft: The Thing on the Doorstep

by H. P. Lovecraft

 

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“He did not speak until we were on a dark stretch of road, and when he did his voice seemed utterly unfamiliar. It was deeper, firmer, and more decisive than I had ever known it to be; while its accent and pronunciation were altogether changed—though vaguely, remotely, and rather disturbingly recalling something I could not quite place. There was, I thought, a trace of very profound and very genuine irony in the timbre—not the flashy, meaninglessly jaunty pseudo-irony of the callow “sophisticate”, which Derby had habitually affected, but something grim, basic, pervasive, and potentially evil. I marvelled at the self-possession so soon following the spell of panic-struck muttering.”

Originally published in Weird Tales in January of 1937. Many people are critical of this story- probably for the same reasons they are down on The Dreams in the Witch House. Despite being undeniably a part of the Cthulhu Mythos, it A) doesn’t add to them, it simply plays of older elements; and B) is a return to heavy supernatural elements- rather than science fiction ones. While both of these are true, it is not a terrible story, just a not a groundbreaking one.

Done almost similar to Herbert West: Reanimator - only with on a psychic level, we see a man with tastes for the occult who marries a woman from Innsmouth (and we all remember the bizarre interbreeding with the Deep Ones from The Shadow Over Innsmouth) with strange features- similar to those of the Deep Ones. The man then begins acting strangely, discussing an evil effect his wife his having over him and eventually begins to change and develop strange mannerisms. Eventually culminating in the titular Thing on the Doorstep- which is a very nice twist, if you read the story.

As I said before there are many standards of the Cthulhu Mythos in this story: Miskatonic University, Arkham, Innsmouth, Kingsport, The Necronomicon, Azathoth, Shub-Niggurath, Shoggoths, and so on. But the story does not add to them in any manner. Even the mind transference part was done before (and better) in The Shadow Out of Time. It is a fun read, just don’t expect one of Lovecraft’s greatest creations.

Listed below are a film adaptation of the story and the audiobook by Horror Babble. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor!

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Lovecraft: Through the Gates of the Silver Key

by H. P. Lovecraft & E. Hoffman Price

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“And while there are those,” the mad Arab had written, “who have dared to seek glimpses beyond the Veil, and to accept HIM as a Guide, they would have been more prudent had they avoided commerce with HIM; for it is written in the Book of Thoth how terrific is the price of a single glimpse. Nor may those who pass ever return, for in the Vastnesses transcending our world are Shapes of darkness that seize and bind. The Affair that shambleth about in the night, the Evil that defieth the Elder Sign, the Herd that stand watch at the secret portal each tomb is known to have, and that thrive on that which groweth out of the tenants within—all these Blacknesses are lesser than HE Who guardeth the Gateway; HE Who will guide the rash one beyond all the worlds into the Abyss of unnamable Devourers. For HE is’UMR AT-TAWIL, the Most Ancient One, which the scribe rendereth as THE PROLONGED OF LIFE.”

Here was a story that Lovecraft's never wanted to write, had not conceived of in fact. It is the last of the Randolph Carter stories (the protagonist of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Silver Key), a protagonist which Lovecraft believed his tale to be ended. If you remember, the character’s mind had twisted back through time and inhabited his ten year old self.

Lovecraft was approached by his co-author, Price, and was convinced to continue the story of Carter past the time of his finding the Silver Key, which unlocked the doors to beyond, i.e. which leads to Yog Sothoth. From what is said, Lovecraft was not enthusiastic about the project. Lovecraft took the initial draft and altered it, though kept many of the concepts and added his own. Price was happy about the results, stating that Lovecraft "was right of course in discarding all but the basic outline. I could only marvel that he had made so much of my inadequate and bungling start”.


Issue of Weird Tales where the story was first published

I am glad the maestro of the macabre was persuaded to write this tale as it gives us a unique perspective into the Cthulhu Mythos. For past the Ultimate gate, unlocked by the Silver Key, Carter is greeted by a guide who is implied to be Yog Sothoth himself. As it was stated in The Dunwich Horror, “Yog Sothoth is the gate and the key”. The protagonist is informed that the Randolph Carter as he understands himself is a faucet of a greater whole, an aspect of an ubersoul (Not a term that Lovecraft uses, but it fits). Carter himself is a facet of a particular being, the Supreme Archetype, made up of the greatest thinkers of the universe. Considering Carter is the literary alter ego of Lovecraft this is a bit egotistical, but it is unknown if he or Price came up with this bit.  

This story further backs up my theory that Yog Sothoth has been misclassified as an Outer God. His encounter with Carter is something beyond those creatures. Yog Sothoth here is not a mindless massively powerful entity as we have seen in the rest of the Outer Gods from the Mythos. They are so alien that they needed to create Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, to be able to interact with humanity. If anything Yog Sothoth is a manifestation of one of these archetypes or unique entity formed from the reality of the Dreamscape- possibly a Great Old One.  

I think William Murray summed up this story best. He wrote, "As a Dunsanian fantasy, the Price/Lovecraft collaboration is a failure; as a Mythos story, it is rich with ideas, but curiously diluted." But as I love the Dreamscape stories, I feel that this is a wonderful story with a bizarre twist at the end to keep a reader coming back for more.

I couldn’t find any other media derived from this tale, so I’m simply going to include an audiobook version from Horror Babble. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor.
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Lovecraft: The Dreams in the Witch House

by H. P. Lovecraft

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“Old legends are hazy and ambiguous, and in historic times all attempts at crossing forbidden gaps seem complicated by strange and terrible alliances with beings and messengers from outside. There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers—the “Black Man” of the witch-cult, and the “Nyarlathotep” of the Necronomicon. There was, too, the baffling problem of the lesser messengers or intermediaries—the quasi-animals and queer hybrids which legend depicts as witches’ familiars. As Gilman and Elwood retired, too sleepy to argue further, they heard Joe Mazurewicz reel into the house half-drunk, and shuddered at the desperate wildness of his whining prayers.”

There seems to be a lot of dislike for this story from amongst Lovecraft aficionados. Many state that this is amongst the poorest of his later stories. Even he was reluctant to have it published after August Derelith poo-pooed it. Lovecraft later wrote, "What the public considers 'weirdness' in drama is rather pitiful or absurd... They are all the same - flat, hackneyed, synthetic, essentially atmosphere-less jumbles of conventional shrieks and mutterings, and superficial mechanical situations." Yet it eventually was sold to Weird Tales who published it in 1933.

It is easy to understand the yawns directed at this tale as it is a step back towards the supernatural, rather than science fiction- which is where he found his best work. Despite his attempts to wrap it up in scientific jargon in discussing a hole through the “Einsteinian space/time continuum”, it is a story of a witch who uses magic to commune with things from beyond.

Essentially the story is of a young student at Miskatonic University rents a room at the “Witch House” in Arkham where a notorious witch that disappeared once dwelled. The room has odd angles and seems to conform to some unearthly geometry. As the title implies, he begins having strange dreams about the witch, her familiar, a human faced rat named Brown Jenkins, and other worldly places wherein dwell the Elder Things (as last seen from At the Mountains of Madness). He begins pulling things out of his dreams made from weird alloys and elements not catalogued in the periodic table of elements. The dreams become more and more vivid and evil, until disaster springs upon on the young protagonist.

 My opinion is that it's a solid story which builds on the Mythos by definitely connecting the Elder Things with Azathoth and its avatar the crawling Chaos, Nylarthotep. It was enjoyable to see how he connected old traditions of devil worship, meeting with the Devil at a crossroads (here the aforementioned Nylarthotep) and signing their name in a forbidden book (here the book of Azathoth). And how one enters into such pacts and places through the veils of sleep. All of these make for a fun story. Perhaps its only drawback is the predictable ending. But this is a Lovecraft tale. Anyone who has read his work should know what happens to his protagonists.

This story has been adapted twice into films, but I could only find trailers for them. To make up for this, I’ve uploaded an audio version of them as well. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor.

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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) trailer

Dreams of the Witch House trailer

Dreams of the Witch House audiobook

Lovecraft: The Shadow over Innsmouth

by H. P Lovecraft





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“Yield up enough sacrifices an’ savage knick-knacks an’ harbourage in the taown when they wanted it, an’ they’d let well enough alone. Wudn’t bother no strangers as might bear tales aoutside—that is, withaout they got pryin’. All in the band of the faithful—Order o’ Dagon—an’ the children shud never die, but go back to the Mother Hydra an’ Father Dagon what we all come from onct—Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn—”
     Old Zadok was fast lapsing into stark raving, and I held my breath. Poor old soul—to what pitiful depths of hallucination had his liquor, plus his hatred of the decay, alienage, and disease around him, brought that fertile, imaginative brain! He began to moan now, and tears were coursing down his channelled cheeks into the depths of his beard.”

 

Cover the of first printing of the story

Once tossed about like a hot potato, this story is now considered a classic and a staple of the Cthulhu Mythos. This story was initially rejected by Weird Tales, not for its content, but because of its length. It was too long for a magazine issue, but could not be easily broken into two parts. Eventually it was printed into a badly produced paperback, then reprinted in the January 1942 issue of Weird Tales- after the author’s death.

The basic plot is rather straightforward. A man describes how his trip to Innsmouth lead to a government investigation of the town, where odd people having the strange wide-eyed “Innsmouth look”, run rampant and perform strange rites on a place called Devil’s Reef and at the former Masonic Lodge, now called the Esoteric Order of Dagon. One thing leads to another, things are discovered, murders are attempted, and the narrator runs off only to make a startling revelation that turns him around.

Lovecraft further adds another layer to his Mythos. He creates another race the Deep Ones, who honor Father Dagon and Mother Hydra, live under the sea, and sometimes mate with men. But these aren’t beautiful mermaids- oh no. They are carnivorous bug-eyed monsters who are reportedly immortal. They mingle with human from their nests all over the world and their base in America happens to be the New England port of Innsmouth. Dagon is a throwback to a previous story of Lovecraft of the same name. His actual connection is up in the air. He might be an Adam figure to them and dwells in their underwater city- which apparently is some sort of extra-dimensional portal as well. He isn’t an object of worship, as their deity is Cthulhu.

Cover of  Weird Tales January 1942

It has been speculated (not just by me) that these Deep Ones are the same race mentioned in At the Mountains of Madness as arriving with Cthulhu’s landing on the earth. The so-called Star-Spawn of Cthulhu. These may well be the same race, only evolved over the millions of years. An appearance of the Soggoth at the end of the story, one of the slave race of the Elder Things from At the Mountains of Madness, adds credence in my mind.

A number of adaptations and films have been made from this story, including my favorite Lovecraft film Dagon- which unfortunately I could only find the trailer for. But many of the others are below. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor.

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                                            Cthulhu (2007) full film

                    Escape from Midwich Valley (Innsmouth) short- (2015)

                    Insmus wo Oou Kage (1992 Japanese Television
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                                                Dagon (2001) Trailer

                                    Radio Adaptation of the Story

Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness

by H. P. Lovecraft

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“They were infamous, nightmare sculptures even when telling of age-old, bygone things; for shoggoths and their work ought not to be seen by human beings or portrayed by any beings. The mad author of the Necronomicon had nervously tried to swear that none had been bred on this planet, and that only drugged dreamers had ever conceived them. Formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes—viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells—rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile—slaves of suggestion, builders of cities—more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative—Great God! What madness made even those blasphemous Old Ones willing to use and to carve such things?”

Another classic from one of the greatest of all horror writers. At the Mountains of Madness continues with Lovecraft’s world building, and his combined universe, creating an unparalleled bleak universe filled with inhuman races vying for dominance. In fact, it seems the human race only thrived at all was because the others spent their energies destroying each other and we snuck in after the wreckage.

Lovecraft has mastered his voice - technical and horrifically detailed. He knows just when to pull back on the description to allow the reader’s imagination to fill in the blank with something much worse that he could dream up. We see this at the end. After all the strangeness and alien details, the final thing is unknown. Unseeable and insane.

Amazingly this story, now considered by all as a classic, was turned down by Weird Tales for length reasons. Instead, it was serialized in three issues of Astounding Stories in 1936 and has never been out of print since.  It is one of his longest stories, but so much happens, so much is revealed, that it doesn’t feel that long. Perhaps on the fifth re-read it may drag, but that first time is magic. My eyes, my brain, was glued to each syllable and every odd description.

Lovecraft continues his science fiction explosion. While the old guys still remain (Yog Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, and Cthulhu) he no longer adds these massively powerful entities to the Mythos. Instead, he creates the everyday intelligent races which populate the few livable spaces in the Universe. We see the belated history of the Elder Things, described as “Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges are curious growths – combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans. . . which gives almost seven-foot wing spread.” They are one of the many (as it turns out) races which held dominance over the Earth before the dawn of man. 

They in turn created (genetically engineered) the Shoggoths - a blobulous race capable shifting into any desired thought or preform any needed task. These eventually developed consciousness. A civil war erupted and an accord is reached. A truce that eventually lead to the degradation and destruction of their society. Also, they apparently ate six foot penguins, which they herded like cattle.

Elder Thing

The Elder Things (actual race name is unknown) are so old that they recorded the arrival of Cthulhu and fought off his “star-spawn” - whatever the hell they are. Lovecraft did not elaborate on the species. If indeed, they were a species. Then warred against the Mi-Go (the Fungi from Yuggoth) a race we saw earlier in The Whisperer in Darkness. They may even be the authors of Pnakotic Manuscripts - an ancient text that predates mankind- mentioned many times in previous Lovecraft tales.

Strangely enough very little has been done with this story in other mediums. There was talk of a film directed by Guillermo del Toro, but it seems to be stuck in development hell. Perhaps it just as well, I doubt any other medium could do the story justice. But I have found a few bits and pieces which I present below. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor.

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Animated short of the story

5 Part BBC Radio Drama Based on the Story

On the Film Development of the Story.

Lovecraft: The Whisperer In Darkness

by H. P. Lovecraft

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“  . . . is the Lord of the Woods, even to . . . and the gifts of the men of Leng . . . so from the wells of night to the gulfs of space, and from the gulfs of space to the wells of night, ever the praises of Great Cthulhu, of Tsathoggua, and of Him Who is not to be Named. Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!

And it has come to pass that the Lord of the Woods, being . . . seven and nine, down the onyx steps . . . (tri)butes to Him in the Gulf, Azathoth, He of Whom Thou hast taught us marv(els) . . . on the wings of night out beyond space, out beyond th . . . to That whereof Yuggoth is the youngest child, rolling alone in black aether at the rim. . . .

(BUZZING VOICE)

     . . . go out among men and find the ways thereof, that He in the Gulf may know. To Nyarlathotep, Mighty Messenger, must all things be told. And He shall put on the semblance of men, the waxen mask and the robe that hides, and come down from the world of Seven Suns to mock. . . .”

Another of Lovecraft's essential tales. This one eschews from his past sources where he hints at some ancient supernatural thing from which you catch only a glimpse at, and comes straight out with it.

     The Mi-Go, or the Fungi from Yuggoth, are here and gave been for ages. They have vastly superior technology and an interstellar society. They could conquer the Earth, but have no real use for it - beyond various metal ores which they are already mining. Thus all they want is secrecy to get their materials.

Mi-Go - The Fungi from Yuggoth

     Or do they? Lovecraft readers will note that the creature’s symbology is mentioned in the Necronomicon. That they regard Cthulhu and Yog Sothoth in a favorable light, and this story adds new names to the horror- Shub-Nuggurath: The Black Goat if the Woods with a Thousand Young and Tsathogga: an amorphous frog creature who lives under the earth.

    This story beautifully marries science fiction and horror. Blending the Cthulhu Mythos into the horrors of space so effortlessly, it was as if they had been that way all aong. It certainly shows a definite shift from the supernatural to science fiction, as was becoming much more popular at the time. He even added details which were from current science then. Yuggoth is identified as Pluto, which had just been discovered by astronomers.

          The Whisperer in Darkness not only expands Lovecraft’s own creations, but draws in from other sources as well. Specifically from the works of Ambrose Bierce in the form of Hastur (a benign god of shepherds), the Laki of Hali, Carcosa (ancient and mysterious city is barely described, and is viewed only after its destruction by a character who once lived there). These were later expanded upon by Robert W. Chambers adding to it The King in Yellow and the elder sign. People always seem to forget these were not the creations of Lovecraft.

          This story hasn't been adapted into too many other mediums, but I have included what I could find below. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor.

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 Audiobook version

Trailer for the 2011 film

Second Trailer for the 2011 film
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Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror

by H. P. Lovecaft

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          The Dunwich Horror one of the essential Lovecraft tales. It is a sublime piece of writing. Mystical, yet technical, in the author's masterly style. Not one sentence or syllable is wasted in the construction of this tale.

        While it may owe inspiration to “The Great God Pan” by Machen or “The Thing in the Woods” by Williams, it is wholly a wonderful tale that surpasses either of the two I just mentioned.

Originally published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales, this story has never been out of print. It revolves around the rustic Watley clan in Dunwich Massachusetts, part of the fictional Miskatonic River Valley. To a slightly inbred family, a strange child is born that grows, mentally and physically, at a rapid rate. Strange events occur which cause him to go to Miskatonic University to consult a copy of the Necronomicon -as his family's copy is damaged. One thing leads to another, the boy is killed and then disaster strikes. A very satisfying one at that. Read the story if you want to find out what.

Cover of the issues where the story was first published. 

It contains most of the Lovecraftian hallmarks: Yog Sothoth, the Necronomicon, Arkham, Miskatonic University, the rural area as the receptor of evil. It is perhaps the model of what a Lovecraft story is like.

    The bone I gave to pick with the later developed Cthulhu Mythos, mostly arraigned by others after Lovecraft's death, is the classification of Yog Sothoth as an Outer God. It has been established that the avatar/agent of these entities is Nyarlathotep, the crawling chaos, who does their bidding. He is the contact point between humanity and these creature's   In this case Yog Sothoth, referred to as “the key and the gate” to beyond, is a creature that is interacted with directly by Old Man Watley and his family. Perhaps a small difference, but in my mind a significant one. Lovecraft himself never placed Yog Sothoth as an Outer God, that was done by his later writers in the Mythos. If it needs to be classified, Yog Sothoth should be listed among the Great Old Ones.

      Included below are a few film adaptations and a Claymation cartoon. Enjoy and Caveat Emptor. 

           The Dunwich Horror 1970

The Dunwich Horror 2009

Claymation of the story

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