H. P. Lovecraft 57 min read

In the decaying hills around Dunwich, the monstrous Wilbur Whateley grows with unnatural speed, and something far worse than Wilbur waits behind the locked upper floor of the Whateley farmhouse.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1929 story is a cornerstone of cosmic horror and the Cthulhu Mythos. Dread-soaked, atmospheric, unforgettable. Read it for one of Lovecraft's greatest tales, a blasphemous birth in backwoods New England, the Necronomicon, and an invisible abomination that only ancient learning can hope to stop.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

57 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).