The Dunwich Cycle

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CALL OF CTHULHU® FICTION
H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, August Derleth, C. J. Henderson, Richard A. Lupoff, Ben Indiek, Robert M. Price
"Across a covered bridge one sees a small village huddled between the stream and the vertical slope of Round Mountain, and wonders at the cluster of rotting gambrel roofs. Most of the houses are deserted and falling to ruin, and the broken-steepled church now harbours the one slovenly mercantile establishment of the hamlet It is hard to prevent the impression of a faint, malign odour about the village street, as of the massed mould and decay of centuries. It is always a relief to get clear of the place, and to follow the narrow road around the base of the hills and across the level country beyond till it rejoins the Aylesbury pike. Afterward, one sometimes learns that one has been through Dunwich."
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror"
In the Dunwiches of the world the old ways linger. Safely distant from bustling cities, ignorant of... Tovább

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CALL OF CTHULHU® FICTION
H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, August Derleth, C. J. Henderson, Richard A. Lupoff, Ben Indiek, Robert M. Price
"Across a covered bridge one sees a small village huddled between the stream and the vertical slope of Round Mountain, and wonders at the cluster of rotting gambrel roofs. Most of the houses are deserted and falling to ruin, and the broken-steepled church now harbours the one slovenly mercantile establishment of the hamlet It is hard to prevent the impression of a faint, malign odour about the village street, as of the massed mould and decay of centuries. It is always a relief to get clear of the place, and to follow the narrow road around the base of the hills and across the level country beyond till it rejoins the Aylesbury pike. Afterward, one sometimes learns that one has been through Dunwich."
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror"
In the Dunwiches of the world the old ways linger. Safely distant from bustling cities, ignorant of science, ignored by civilization, dull enough never to excite others, poor enough never to provoke envy, these are safe harbors for superstition and seemingly meaningless custom. Sometimes also they shelter truths that have seeped invisibly across the centuries. The people are unlearned but not unknowing of things once great and horrible, of times when the rivers ran red and dark shudder-ings ruled the air. And now such times have returned.
NINE STORIES SET WHERE HORROR BEGINS, EACH STORY PREFACED AND WITH A GENERAL INTRODUCTION BY THE SERIES EDITOR. Vissza