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A review by qalminator
The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
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.