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qalminator's review against another edition
3.0
Well-crafted tale, with the usual Lovecraft caveats (rural people degenerate, apparently, until they no longer count as human, even if they don't mate with elder gods). I read this after reading an alternate version casting Armitage as a villain. The original interpretation has the happier ending, notably.
Oddly I found myself wondering if this story was in any way foundational to Pete's Dragon. I mean, giant invisible creature stomping through town, wreaking havoc? Tone it down a notch or 20 to a kid's companion, and you get Pete's Dragon. Instead of masses of tentacles and eyes and mouths, you get "head of a camel", "neck of a crocodile", "both a fish and a mammal".
So... does that make Pete Wilbur? And it's his adopted family that are the, er, problematic beings? I'm probably analyzing this too much.
Oddly I found myself wondering if this story was in any way foundational to Pete's Dragon. I mean, giant invisible creature stomping through town, wreaking havoc? Tone it down a notch or 20 to a kid's companion, and you get Pete's Dragon. Instead of masses of tentacles and eyes and mouths, you get "head of a camel", "neck of a crocodile", "both a fish and a mammal".
So... does that make Pete Wilbur? And it's his adopted family that are the, er, problematic beings? I'm probably analyzing this too much.
czarot's review against another edition
3.0
This was okay, but can't help but laugh at that scene where the townsfolk did the incantation (reminded me oddly of anime scenes trying to save the day with the power of friendship) lol.
jtherockjohnson's review against another edition
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
magratajostiernos's review against another edition
3.0
Una novela corta con un inicio impresionante, me gustó muchísimo cómo nos va presentando ese pueblo "maldito" rodeado de brujería y seres extraños. Es cierto que según vamos avanzando para mi decae bastante, pero el estilo del autor me encanta, mezcla un rollo periodístico y "de investigación" con un lenguaje muy cuidado y plagado de detalles.
Lo mejor sin duda es la atmósfera pavorosa que consigue mantener durante toda la historia.
Lo mejor sin duda es la atmósfera pavorosa que consigue mantener durante toda la historia.
vigneswara_prabhu's review against another edition
3.0
Rating 3 out of 5| Grade C+; When your baby daddy is way, way out of town
The Dunwich Horror is not one of those stories which doesn't gets better on rereading.
The Patriarch of the Whateley family, who dabbled in the occult, wants to herald the arrival of an old god onto our plain. And in doing so, tear down everything man has built and replace it with a new world order, where he and his family would be the nobility.
For this purpose, he used the age old trick that all dark magicians have been using since time immemorial. To have his daughter sacrificed to serve as the surrogate for an unholy conception of its heralds.
Wilber Whateley is born premature & deformed, and none in town known of his birth father. What they know is that the boy seems more beast than man, and is growing at an unnatural pace. At 12 years old, he is already a grown man in body & mind. And after the passing of Whateley Senior, it is his calling to bring forth apocalypse on earth.
For this purpose he seeks the Necronomicon, located at the Miskatonic University; two main stays of the Lovecraftian world. If he succeeds in his dark ritual, the Old gods will walk this plane once more, spelling the doom of all life as we know it.
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The Dunwich Horror is not one of those stories which doesn't gets better on rereading.
The Patriarch of the Whateley family, who dabbled in the occult, wants to herald the arrival of an old god onto our plain. And in doing so, tear down everything man has built and replace it with a new world order, where he and his family would be the nobility.
For this purpose, he used the age old trick that all dark magicians have been using since time immemorial. To have his daughter sacrificed to serve as the surrogate for an unholy conception of its heralds.
Wilber Whateley is born premature & deformed, and none in town known of his birth father. What they know is that the boy seems more beast than man, and is growing at an unnatural pace. At 12 years old, he is already a grown man in body & mind. And after the passing of Whateley Senior, it is his calling to bring forth apocalypse on earth.
For this purpose he seeks the Necronomicon, located at the Miskatonic University; two main stays of the Lovecraftian world. If he succeeds in his dark ritual, the Old gods will walk this plane once more, spelling the doom of all life as we know it.
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moosereads1's review against another edition
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
While I love Lovecraft, I just couldn’t deal with the pacing of this story; how does such a short story manage to feel so long? The concept is fascinating and I’d love to know more about the creature, but the creature is only actively described and discussed in the last handful of pages. I wanted to love it, but it fell a bit short.
nfleow's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
5.0
josephinecambridge's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25