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Save:A horrible creature born of the family of a wizard stalks the fields, roads, and hills near Dunwich. Only an intrepid professor from Miskatonic University and two fearless colleagues can stop it. This is an archetypal story of the Cthulhu Mythos, but as the victims and most of the observers are New England yokels, with an appropriate yokelish dialect, it lacks the impact of Lovecraft's masterpiece, The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Lovecraft, with his endless vocabulary and descriptive skills, can pull something like this off better than just about anyone. The Dunwich Horror is a really enjoyable graphic novel to break up the workday with, offering a fast read with two stories - The Dunwich Horror and The Hound. The first story stands out as the stronger of the two, featuring a unique writing style that builds anticipation and keeps the reader in the dark, enhancing the suspense throughout.
“Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes...
