Nello sperduto villaggio di Dunwich, la fattoria dei Whateley è al centro di una serie di eventi inquietanti. Il piccolo Wilbur, figlio di padre ignoto e di Lavinia Whateley, un’albina sgraziata, cresce a un ritmo innaturale e a soli dieci anni ha l’aspetto di un uomo i vicini lo evitano, gli animali lo temono. Suo nonno, esperto di stregoneria e arti occulte, lavora senza sosta ad ampliare il fienile e acquista di continuo bestiame, ma nonostante ciò il numero dei capi della sua mandria resta invariato. Cupi rimbombi provengono dalla collina e un fetore insopportabile aleggia sulla vallata. Qualunque sia il segreto custodito dai Whateley, minaccia di travolgere Dunwich e i suoi abitanti. Con questa storia arcana e le sue creature da incubo, il “Solitario di Providence” si conferma ineguagliabile maestro dell’horror.
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. — Wikipedia
