The Dunwich Horror
The Dunwich Horror is my fave Halloween story, and one of my favorite stories period. I first read it in those books we used to order in grade school, by Scholastic or Dell or some other entity. I loved it then and now. The tale of the Whately family up to no good whatsoever in the boondocks outside of the village of Dunwich, roadsigns since removed, is extremely gripping and very well written. It is Lovecraft's masterpiece, and one of the few pulp stories to survive with all it's power untouched by 21st century movie conditioned taste. It is curious that it has never been filmed the way it was written. With CGI it can now be done right, and can now be done in such a way as to unleash the impact of Lovecraft's story and prose. It is H. P.'s best, although I expect an argument from a certain Lovecraft überfan that I dast not name. ( www.deviantart.com/chaosfive-5… ). In 1979 Heavy Metal magazine put out an all Lovecraft issue that completely missed the mark