Maximiliano Gómez Vázquez
I read a book that I really recomend if you like cosmic horror, it’s called “ The Dunwich Horror” written by H.P Lovecraft but, what’s the main topic of the book? Which are it’s highlights? Well, all of the questions will be answered and I will give you some fun facts in which yo may be interested.
Firstly, the Dunwich horror talks about a town in the US, more excactly in Massachusetts, in the small town of Dunwich, this story tell us that there has been misterious disappearances of the cattle, everything leads to the old whateley, he has been increasing he’s money and making changes in his house, making it bigger and bigger. What the town doesn’t know is that, in the house, the Whateley are keeping a creature connected with Yog- Sothoth ( in Lovecraft’s tales Yog-Sothoth is one of the most powerful creatures, but, he’s body is so strange that he can’T be described, the legend says that, if someone sees him, it will turn mad).
Then, the old Whateley dies and he leaves his mission of raising this creature to his stepson: Wilbur Whateley ( I refer to him as stepson because he was the product of the love of Lavina Whateley and Yog-Sothoth). Wilbur had a copy of the “Necronomicon” (the book of the death, With this book you can summon every creature in H.P Lovecraft’s tales). But his copy of the Necronomicon had a blurry page, curiously the page that he needed. He went to Miskatonic University ( a College where you can learn magic) and tries to steal the original Necronomicon, of course, he couldn’t do it, a guardian dog killed him, the librarian, Dr Henry Armitage saw how when the dog kills Wilbur, he starts to transform in a hybrid, according to Henry it was half fish, half human.
Everything passed except for the creature of Whateley’s house, this creature started to kill everyone and grow in size, he murders two families (and a lot of cops) then the creature runs to the Dunwich’s mountain, where he hides, after this, Armitage decides yo take down the creature with a spell, before he was taken down, he tried to ask for help to his father (Yog-Sothoth) but he failded.
After this the book reveal us that the creature was the brother of Wilbur.
I think this is a great book if you like horror, at the begining it can be a little bit hard to read because of the use of advanced words, but, when you keep reading the book sticks to your mind and you can’t stop reading!! I think it’s awesome.
Fun facts:
- This novel was written in 1928 in this same date the book “The Call of Chuthullu” was in it’s first draft, so, this book, a lot of writers said, it was the predecessor of the other Lovecraft’s tale.
Autor
Maximiliano Gómez Vázquez; Alumno de la Escuela Nuevo Continente Metepec del estado de México, texto académico nivel bachillerato, elaboración propia, SECCIÓN CORRESPONDIENTE AL LIBRO: Epistemología de la sociedad . Contacto; [email protected] y https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9514-3973