Oh and now we have to wait 10 seconds before we read the next passage (another excuse to add six more panels where nothing happens). Oh and now we have to make the Horror stronger so we can trap it. There are the most lame plot tricks to pad what little story is here. I think it would have been safe to assume most readers would have been familiar with the original story.Ĥ. The characters do almost nothing except explain what they are going to do next (or eventually) or the back story or the back story from the original Dunwich Horror. This has to be the worst story Lansdale ever put his name to.ģ. Ol' Joe is trying to pull a Derleth here.Ģ. It is not 'H.P Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror' as the cover states. There are so many things wrong with this book.ġ. As chilling today as it was upon its publication in 1929, The Dunwich Horror is a horrifying masterwork by the man Stephen King called 'the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.' … ( more) Meanwhile, left unattended, the monster at the Whateley house keeps expanding, until the farmhouse explodes and the beast is unleashed to terrorize the poor, aggrieved village of Dunwich. But his reward eludes him: he gets caught, and the result is death by guard dog. Wilbur tracks down an original edition of the Necronomicon and breaks into a library to steal it. And above all, there's the mysterious presence in the farmhouse, unseen but horrifying, which seems to be growing.

There's the grandfather, a mad old sorcerer Lavinia, the deformed, albino woman and Wilbur, a disgusting specimen who reaches full manhood in less than a decade. One of the core Cthulhu stories, The Dunwich Horror introduces us to the grim village of Dunwich, where each member of the Whateley family is more grotesque than the other. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror 'so fiendish' that his editor at Weird Tales 'may not dare to print it.' The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw it. A classic tale of terror and grotesquerie by the original master of horror H.

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