#thedunwichhorror

[coolmoviemanmike]

I just watched The Dunwich Horror (1970)

[chronivore]

"El Horror de Dunwich"

Artwork for the board game "Chants for the Old Ones"

Art by David G. Forés

#thedunwichhorror #cosmichorror #cthulhumythos #boardgames #mydearcultists #art #artwork

[virovac]

This recontextulized the entire finale for me

From earlier in the thread, two pages ago

(“Oscar” is Leila Hann’s nickame for the Dunwich Horror)

Oscar’s voice is so deep that you feel the vibrations in your flesh rather than hearing them. And they immediately conjure up an overwhelming fear reaction from the deepest part of your animal brain.

I suspect that in the world of the story, we have that fear reaction to infrabass sounds (an actual phenomenon in real life, by the way) BECAUSE they resemble the voices of the Old Ones. Like the dogs recognizing the smell of the Old Ones as the tell of an enemy that needs to be attacked, we recognize their voices and anything resembling their voices as something to fear. Memories that go back to our pre-mammalian ancestors who just barely survived the Old Ones’ previous reign on earth. The Old Ones’ influence is already written into our own DNA.

As for what Oscar is saying. Well. If he can be believed, he and Wilbur aren’t just the sons of some random Old One on the other side of the portal. They’re the sons of the portal itself. Of Yog-Sothoth, the entity that fills the entire space between worlds and holds past, present, and future within itself.

It definitely helps with the Christ allegory. And we’re getting a pretty close parallel to the crucifixion now, aren’t we? Oscar’s words are basically just a paraphrasing of “Father, why hast thou forsaken me?” which Jesus is supposed to have shouted from the cross. Yog-Sothoth definitely falls pretty close to the Judeo-Christian conception of God, if a bit more distant from the world as we experience it most of the time.

Here’s where things get interesting, though. According to the Necronomicon (which, admittedly, may not be completely reliable. We don’t know where Abdul Alhazred got his information, after all), we can recognize the Old Ones by their particular smell. Not just the Yogspawn that they have their human collaborators create, the Old Ones themselves. Likewise, in Wilbur’s diary, he noted that he saw entities on the far side of the portal who looked a lot like Oscar.

It looks to me like we’re dealing with an entire race of Yogspawn....

And this sequence of events is even more telling.

“But that was all. The pallid group in the road, still reeling at the indisputably English syllables that had poured thickly and thunderously down from the frantic vacancy beside that shocking altar-stone, were never to hear such syllables again. Instead, they jumped violently at the terrific report which seemed to rend the hills; the deafening, cataclysmic peal whose source, be it inner earth or sky, no hearer was ever able to place. A single lightning-bolt shot from the purple zenith to the altar-stone, and a great tidal wave of viewless force and indescribable stench swept down from the hill to all the countryside.”

The men started casting their spell. Oscar reacted in pain, as if what they were doing was hurting him, and called out to Yog-Sothoth for help. In response, a lightning bolt shot down – FROM THE INVISIBLE SHADOW OVERHEAD – and disintegrated Oscar.

If they had sprayed the Ibn Ghazi powder upward. If they had sprayed that powder upward.

What would we have seen?

And now onto the main event: what I linked to above:

I read an interesting article recently about the degree to which parasites ARE their hosts. In the article's example, an entomologist who carried a parasitic botfly larva to term was haunted by whether or not the parasite, which had been grown entirely from his biomass, within his own body, was actually part of himself. Nevermind the fact that he didn't want it, and that he was at cross-purposes with the mother botfly who had infected him. Let's take that logic a little further. If a mosquito bites you, and then lays a clutch of eggs that are made almost entirely of your stolen proteins and fats, does that make the resulting larvae yours as much as hers? What if it wasn't just protein she was stealing from you? What if she was also using DNA from her stolen blood sample and integrating that into her larvae? Its not so far fetched: there are viruses that literally do exactly this. Then would her larvae be yours? If a population of these "virus mosquitoes" got by for generation after generation by biting humans, would they collectively be an extension of us? Regardless of how we ourselves felt about the annoying, itchy bites? Imagine such a virus-mosquito realizing that a human was its "father." Imagine if it drew some very misguided conclusions from that knowledge, and started buzzing in that sleeping human's ear.

Swat.

[roadmapofpain]

Wilbur Whateley

[obscurelylit]

“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.” ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror #hplovecraft #lovecraft #lovecraftian #lovecraftianhorror #thedunwichhorror #thenecronomicon #cthulhumythos #skullart #horroraddict #horrorartwork #horrorartist #horrorartwork #digitaldoodle #procreate https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxCb1hAinq/?igshid=1xxa9a9e2whqn

[willpottorff]

What about Gug you ask?!? I posted on reddit recently with that Wilbur Whateley piece and someone recommended I do Gug from Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, so I did! Not a crazy story in fact someone will probably find it boring but what about Gug?!?! • • • #art #illustration #artist #horrormonster #comicart #ghouls #photoshop #creaturedesign #horror #artwork #horrorlife #creature #artoftheday #horrorart #willpottorff #thedunwichhorror #tentacle #lovecraftian #hplovecraft #illustratorsoninstagram #illustrator #wilburwhateley #yogsothoth #gug #thedreamquestofunknownkadath (at Chemical Dog Productions) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFciHeij2oB/?igshid=10kco3nsa4wgn

[jackbattyart]

#thedunwichhorror (el Horror de Dunwich) es uno de los gemelos nacidos de la unión de Yog-Sothoth y una humana. Siendo este primero mas parecido al padre se convierte en un problema para el pueblo de Dunwich cuando escapa del granero que limitaba su tamaño Siendo invisible la mayoria del tiempo... MATERIALES👇🏻 🌸SakuraPigmaMicron003+005 ____________________________________________ #lovecraftart #draw #art #drawing #lovecraft #jackbattyart #instaart #illustration #darkart #ink #dibujo #artist #horrorart #inkeddrawing #inking #doodle #hplovecraft #inkart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz03xZCIf_3/?igshid=1n64wksqtekwg

[octoberboy1031]

Look at this adorably evil #WilburWhateley from @the_cryptocurium!! 🦑🐺 #cryptocurium #thedunwichhorror #hplovecraft #providencebynight #newenglandhorror #horror #horrorgeek #creepy #spooky #august #summer #night #terrorverse #dandelionwine (at North Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgvW0IQuHkf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cezacherl]

'The Dunwich Horror' is now available in the store at cezacherl.com 🌙 Enjoy! 🌒🌕🌘 #art #artwork #arttherapy #artinsanity #illustration #illustrator #bookillustration #bookillustrator #thedunwichhorror #dunwichhorror #dunwich #yogsothoth #yogsothothisthegate #cthulhu #cthulhumythos #cthulhuart #cthulhugirl #cthulhufhtagn #fhtagn #beautifuldancer #lovelydancer #lovecraft #hplovecraft #beautyandthebeast #creaturefeature #monster #monstergirl #blackandwhiteart #shoggoth #vtmfamilie https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHe51AOFcl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[greekiegeekie]

Someone: So what are your plans for the weekend? Me: ....um 😄😂 #books #bookstagram #johnsteinbeck #ofmiceandmen #hplovecraft #howardphillipslovecraft #thecallofcthulu #thedunwichhorror #horrorbooks #fall #autumn #aesthetic #weekend

[burningstoneapparel]

"I am not very proud of being a human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect." #wip #newshit #tentacles #hplovecraft #lovecraft #lovecraftian #starspawn #cthulhu #cthulhumythos #callofcthulhu #thedunwichhorror #thegreatoldones #cosmichorror https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Uir5VFPyB/?igshid=17kuvhdkwqgxw

[coolmoviemanmike]

I'm watching The Dunwich Horror (1970)

[caseydesilets]

Fancy Young Wilbur Whately. #Art !Acrylic painting on Dunwich Horror pages. This is going up in @the_loin_sf Gallery show featuring HP Lovecraft inspired artwork, starting tomorrow night! Come check it out and a bunch of other great art up for sale! . . . #theloinsf #acrylicpainting #ink #inktober #horror #mixedmedia #thedunwichhorror #hplovecraft #fineart #painting #sanfrancisco #oakland #groupshow #indie #indieartist #sailor #fleetweek #cthulu #oldgods #instaart #artistsoninstagram

[virovac]

Ok I understand where the superstitions about Whippoorwills come from now

[love-biscuit23]

#hplovecraft #thedunwichhorror #cthulu #reading #itried #tiger #quietnightin https://www.instagram.com/p/B0xFkSlBJ1R/?igshid=1h3jagh03o4ev

[nickthehat]

Added some new designs to my @threadless @artistshops. The Cats of Ulthar, The Dunwich Horror and Cosmic Paradigm Traveler (from my painted skate deck!). #thecatsofulthar #thedunwichhorror #hplovecraft #lovecraft #cosmicparadigmtraveler #cosmichorror #nickthehat #weirdart #horrorart #horror #monsters #cats #kitty #feline #sorcery #wizardy #weirdfiction #weirdtales