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The Dunwich Horror

1929 short story by H. P. Lovecraft

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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"The Dunwich Horror" is a cosmic horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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“The Dunwich Horror” enters the record as 1929 short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dunwich, Horror and short can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Dunwich Horror” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.