The Dunwich Horror

short story by H. P. Lovecraft
VisualArtwork literary_work Q2468877
The Dunwich Horror
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The Dunwich Horror

Summary

The Dunwich Horror is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,505 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Dunwich Horror authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].
  • The Dunwich Horror's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Dunwich Horror's genre is horror literature[5].
  • The Dunwich Horror's genre is science fiction[6].
  • The Dunwich Horror's genre is weird fiction[7].
  • The Dunwich Horror's part of the series is recorded as Cthulhu Mythos[8].
  • The Dunwich Horror's Commons category is recorded as The Dunwich Horror[9].
  • The Dunwich Horror's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • The Dunwich Horror's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • 1928 marks the founding of The Dunwich Horror[12].
  • The Dunwich Horror was released on April 1929[13].
  • The Dunwich Horror's work available at URL is recorded as https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dh.aspx[14].
  • The Dunwich Horror's published in is recorded as Weird Tales[15].
  • The Dunwich Horror's published in is recorded as The Weird[16].
  • The Dunwich Horror's published in is recorded as The Dunwich Horror and Others[17].
  • The Dunwich Horror's published in is recorded as 11 Great Horror Stories[18].
  • The Dunwich Horror's published in is recorded as Avon Ghost Reader[19].
  • The Dunwich Horror's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Dunwich Horror'}[20].
  • The Dunwich Horror's different from is recorded as The Dunwich Horror[21].
  • The Dunwich Horror's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "When a traveler 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."}[22].
  • The Dunwich Horror's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': '"It was his twin brother, but it looked more like the father than he did."'}[23].
  • The Dunwich Horror's epigraph is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': '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. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us at all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older standing. They date beyond body—or without the body, they would have been the same… That the kind of fear here treated is purely spiritual—that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on earth, that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy—are difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable insight into our ante-mundane condition, and a peep at least into the shadowland of pre-existence.'}[24].
  • The Dunwich Horror's form of creative work is recorded as short story[25].

Product Details

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  • Release type: Prose[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 026ee6d7-514d-4ed6-b445-2644fce27990[27]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Dunwich Horror authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].

Publication

The Dunwich Horror was released on April 1929[13]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[10]. Genres include horror literature[5], science fiction[6], and weird fiction[7]. Its part of the series is recorded as Cthulhu Mythos[8].

Subject and Themes

The Dunwich Horror's part of the series is recorded as Cthulhu Mythos[8].

Why It Matters

The Dunwich Horror ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,505 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [26] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [27] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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