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Tagged: Whateley family

Standing stones overlook a distant farmhouse beneath disturbed mist.
Places

Dunwich

Dunwich is the isolated Massachusetts township in which the Whateley family’s connection with Yog-Sothoth produces the catastrophe of The Dunwich Horror. Its village, scattered farms, stone-crowned hills and concealed routes make the landscape an active part of both the mystery and the effort to stop it.

5 min read · 1,008 words

Characters

Lavinia Whateley

Lavinia Whateley is the mother of Wilbur and his concealed twin in The Dunwich Horror. Her early involvement in the family’s inherited lore gives way to fear and exclusion as Wilbur takes control, ending in an unexplained disappearance in 1926.

4 min read · 801 words

Weathered stones and a low altar overlook an isolated valley under storm clouds; an imagined Sentinel Hill.
Places

Sentinel Hill

Sentinel Hill is the ritual height overlooking the Dunwich countryside where the Whateleys light their seasonal fires and where Armitage, Rice and Morgan confront Wilbur’s invisible twin.

4 min read · 635 words

An enormous gray many-eyed mass with thick folding legs and a distorted Whateley-like face appears in powder and mist above Sentinel Hill.
Entities & creatures

The Dunwich Horror

The Dunwich Horror is the otherwise unnamed twin brother of Wilbur Whateley in H. P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror. Born to Lavinia Whateley and associated with Yog-Sothoth, it develops into an enormous, normally invisible being concealed inside the Whateley farmhouse. Its escape transforms the family’s secret into a public catastrophe. The final revelation identifies it as a member of that family rather than an unrelated monster summoned at the last moment.

7 min read · 1,373 words

Wilbur Whateley consulting a forbidden volume in the library.
Characters

Wilbur Whateley

Wilbur Whateley is the outwardly human-presenting child of Lavinia Whateley and Yog-Sothoth, and the principal researcher in his family’s attempt to bring outside powers into the world. His premature development, concealed anatomy and library inquiries form the first major mystery of The Dunwich Horror.

7 min read · 1,313 words

Linked iridescent globes interpreting Yog-Sothoth’s museum-associated form.
Entities & creatures

Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth is associated with the boundaries of space and time, the opening of gates, forbidden invocation and a form of existence in which separate identities can become aspects of a larger whole. Its role ranges from the Whateleys’ attempted incursion at Dunwich to Randolph Carter’s encounter beyond the Ultimate Gate.

10 min read · 1,986 words