The Dunwich Horror Plus a Little About Me

The Dunwich Horror by HP Lovecraft

Being new to the RFR Casket Crew, I thought I would introduce myself before telling you what I’ll be bringing to RFR and to all of you.

First I must confess that I’m a native Texan who loves the horror genre. From print to film, I love all things scary and spooky. I found RFR about a year and a half ago and kept up with everything as much as possible. When the opportunity popped out of the graveyard to work with Jonathan and the other casket crew members, I jumped out of my skin because I love to write. And I get excited about writing about a subject I’m passionate about.

The horror genre covers a wide range of things. From vampires to werewolves, witches to wizards. It covers everything dead and ummm…undead too. One of my fondest memories is listening to ghost stories at an early age. The stories terrified me but I couldn’t get enough. I would listen to these stories and go to sleep with the covers over my head. As I got older, I would read these stories and then tuck the book under the mattress before drifting off to my nightmares.

I still enjoy a good story whether I’m listening to an audio book or orator or reading the printed word. I like Stephen King, Dean Knootz, Ann Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton or Kelley Armstrong. However, I don’t think I would be able to read any of these authors’ works if it weren’t for those who paved, or helped pave, the road. One such man like H.P. Lovecraft.

Howard Phillip Lovecraft was an American author of horror fantasy and science fiction. During his career, it was classified simply as weird fiction.

The Dunwich Horror is part of Lovecraft’s weird fiction. It was first published in 1929. I actually listened to a dramatized version of this story that I purchased from Audible. And even though it’s been more than seventy years since its first publication, it’s still an eerie tale.

The plot revolves around the desire of Wilbur Whately, the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, to acquire an unabridged Latin version of the Necronomicon – his imperfect English copy ill-suited for his dark purpose – so that he may open the way for the mysterious “Old Ones.”

Next time I’ll be catching a ride with Marty McFly as he goes back to the future. I’ll be reviewing Stephen King’s latest work UR.