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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. Strange events surround Wilbur's birth and precocious development; he matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade.
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- 1929
Jan 14, 1970 · The Dunwich Horror: Directed by Daniel Haller. With Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner. Wilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon.
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- Horror
- Daniel Haller
- 1970-01-14
The Dunwich Horror is a 1970 American supernatural horror film directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, and Ed Begley.
When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean’s Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country. The ground gets higher, and the brier-bordered stone walls press closer and closer against the ruts of the dusty, curving road.
In the isolated, desolate, decrepit village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as " Yog-Sothoth "). Strange events surround his birth and precocious development.
The Dunwich Horror is a 1929 novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft. In the story, members of the Whateley family try to summon the extraterrestrial Old Ones to their small village in Massachusetts. The novella is considered to be one of the foundational works of the Lovecraft mythology.
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In the Arkam University, Dr. Henry Armitage has the infamous Necronomicon exposed in a glass box in the library. Dr. Armitage's assistants Nancy Wagner and Elizabeth Hamilton are closing the library, when Wilbur Whateley arrives and asks to consult the notorious book.
