The Dunwich Horror is a horror novella by American writer 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. A loose adaptation of the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft, this film concerns a young female graduate student who is targeted by a man attempting to use her in an occult ritual taken from the Necronomicon.
