Across a covered bridge one sees a small village huddled between the stream and the vertical slope of round mountain and wonders at the cluster of rotting gambrel roofs,

speaking an earlier architectural period than that of the neighboring.

It is not reassuring to see on a closer glance that most of the houses are deserted and

falling to ruin, and that the broken steepled church now harbors the one slovenly mercantile establishment of ham.

One dreads to trust the tenorous tunnel of the bridge, yet there is no way to avoid it.

Once a cross, it is hard. yet there is no way to avoid it.

Once a cross, it is hard to prevent the impression of a faint malign odor about the village street as of the masked mold and decay of centuries.

It is always a relief to get clear of the place and to follow the narrow road around the base of the hills and across the level country beyond till it rejoins the ailsbury Pike.

Afterward one sometimes learns that one has been through damage.

H.P. podcraft.com Welcome back to the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast at

H.P. craft. We are picking up where we left off from last week the second part of

the H.P. Lovecraft story, The Dunwich Horror. Today's guest host is Robert M.

Price and today's narrator is Andrew Lehman.

The local reporters, they find out about the Wattleys and how crazy they they are. The old Watley was some kind of

wizard and then this kid who's four looks like he's ten and he's creepy looking and they

start doing articles about them and they've kind of sort of become local celebrities and

Wotley is really annoyed by them but he doesn't want to be violent or anything

towards them so he just kind of mildly humors their interviews

and answers some questions even though he kind of dodges a little bit. You find out

too that he pays for his cattle with old gold pieces.

Not unlike the terrible man, remember who used to pay with his the balloons.

Yeah, he was out of the general store with the balloons.

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