With Wilbur dead, no one attends to the mysterious presence growing in the Whateley farmhouse. When Armitage and two other professors, Warren Rice and Francis Morgan, arrive on the scene, they see Wilbur's semi-human corpse before it melts completely, leaving no evidence. A guard dog, maddened by Wilbur's alien body odor, attacks with unusual ferocity and kills him. Henry Armitage, refuses to release the university's copy to him (and, by sending warnings to other libraries, thwarts Wilbur's efforts to consult their copies), Wilbur breaks into the library under the cover of night to steal it. The Necronomicon has spells that Wilbur can use to summon the Old Ones, but his family's copy is damaged and lacks the page he needs to open the 'door'. Wilbur ventures to Miskatonic University in Arkham to procure their copy of the Necronomicon – Miskatonic's library is one of only a handful in the world to stock an original. The colossal entity eventually occupies the entire interior of the farmhouse. Old Whateley eventually dies, and Wilbur's mother Lavinia disappears soon after.

People begin to notice a trend of cattle mysteriously disappearing. Year by year, the entity grows to monstrous proportions, requiring the two men to make frequent modifications to the farmhouse. Wilbur and Old Whateley have sequestered an unseen entity at their farmhouse this entity is connected somehow to a being known as Yog-Sothoth, which is Wilbur's father. Various locals grow suspicious after Old Whateley buys more and more cattle, yet the number of his herd never increases and the cattle in his field become mysteriously afflicted with severe open wounds. All the while his grandfather, a sorcerer called only Old Whateley, indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. Locals shun him and his family, and animals fear and despise him due to his repellent appearance and an unnatural, inhuman odor emanating from his body. Strange events surround Wilbur's birth and precocious development he matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade. In the desolate, decrepit Massachusetts village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino, and an unknown father. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts.

Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). ' The Dunwich Horror' is a horror novella by American writer H.

The issue of Weird Tales in which 'The Dunwich Horror' was first published.

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