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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: the Aylesbury pike. Afterwards one sometimes learns that one has
been through Dunwich.
Outsiders visit Dunwich as seldom as possible,
and since a certain season of horror all the signboards pointing
towards it have been taken down. The scenery, judged by an ordinary
aesthetic canon, is more than commonly beautiful; yet there is
no influx of artists or summer tourists. Two centuries ago, when
talk of witch-blood, Satan-worship, and strange forest presences
was not laughed at, it was the custom to give reasons for avoiding
the locality. In our sensible age - since the Dunwich horror of
1928 was hushed up by those who had the town's and the world's
The Dunwich Horror |
