H. P. Lovecraft & H. P. Lovecraft 
The Dunwich Horror 

’The Dunwich Horror’ is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. ’The Dunwich Horror’ is one of the few tales Lovecraft wrote wherein the heroes successfully defeat the antagonistic entity or monster of the story.