The Dunwich Horror
Deadly forces are about to be awakened ...In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones,...
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Deadly forces are about to be awakened ...In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night, fearful for their lives, by day able only to trace the wreckage wrought by the gigantic, unseen monster. In this and other tales of the macabre, H. P. Lovecraft weaves unearthly fantasies of creatures beyond conception - existing between the spaces of the dimensions we know.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780141038766 (0141038764)
Publish date: October 2nd 2008
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 201
Edition language: English
bookshelves: autumn-2015, e-book, gutenberg-project, halloween-2015, classic, us-massachusetts, published-1929, north-americas, boo-scary Read from October 05 to 06, 2015 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50133Opening: When a traveler in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the ju...
First sentence: "Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras - dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies - may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition - but they were there before."Last sentence: "It was his twin brother, but it looked more like the father than he did."Horror is a genre that I usually...
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