Wilbur's efforts to obtain the book are brought to the attention of a college professor Dr. With the knowledge in the book he could bring back the 'Old Ones, An ancient race that wants to take back their world Wilbur takes on a task to obtain access to the famous book of the occult, the Necronomicon.

Wilbur and his Grandfather are believed to deal in the supernatural. The Whateley farm is given wide berth due to ever increasing sounds, odors and unexplained events. Wilbur is perhaps the strangest member of the family, as he was born under strange circumstances and grows to manhood very early.

The town of Dunwich lies in the Miskatonic Valley, where legends of evil abide.ĭunwich's, Whateley family is mysterious and even feared. He also cut timber and began to repair the unused parts of his house - a spacious, peak-roofed affair whose rear end was buried entirely in the rocky hillside, and whose three least-ruined ground-floor rooms had always been sufficient for himself and his daughter. Meanwhile Old Whateley continued to buy cattle without measurably increasing the size of his herd. Dogs abhorred the boy, and he was always obliged to take various defensive measures against their barking menace. He was soon disliked even more decidedly than his mother and grandsire, and all conjectures about him were spiced with references to the bygone magic of Old Whateley, and how the hills once shook when he shrieked the dreadful name of Yog-Sothoth in the midst of a circle of stones with a great book open in his arms before him. Dingly ugly despite his appearance of brilliancy there being something almost goatish or animalistic about his thick lips, large-pored, yellowish skin, coarse crinkly hair, and oddly elongated ears.

The dunwich horror by hp lovecraft