The Dunwich Horror by H P Lovecraft

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

A remote New England village. Dark rumours swirl among its lonely hills. Whispers of strange rites, of a family line touched by shadows, haunt the woods and starlit nights. Something stirs where the old stones lie, and the boundary between the known and the unseen begins to thin. In my Halloween tradition, the tale chosen is “The Dunwich Horror”—a story rich in mystery, and alive with Lovecraft’s trademark unease. First published in Weird Tales, April 1929. Collected in "The Outsider and Others" by Arkham House, 1939. H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer whose cosmic horror stories explored the limits of knowledge and the fragility of sanity. His influenced echoes through horror, science fiction, and popular culture to this day. Join Our Podia Community for 100s of Ad Free Ghost Stories www.classicghost.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.7	The Dunnich Horror by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, narrated by Tony Walker of the classic Ghost Stories podcast.
1:02.0	1. When a traveller in North Central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury Pike, just beyond Dean's corners.
1:14.6	It comes upon a lonely and curious country.
1:18.6	The ground gets higher and the briar-bordered stone walls press closer and closer against the ruts of the dusty curving road.
1:26.6	The trees of the frequent forest
1:29.2	belt seem too large, and the wild weeds, brambles and grasses attain a luxuriance
1:36.1	not often found in settled regions. At the same time, the planted fields appear singularly
1:43.0	few and barren, while the sparsely scattered
1:46.6	houses were a surprisingly uniform aspect of age, squalor and dilapidation.
1:54.7	Without knowing why, one hesitates to ask directions from the gnarled solitary figures
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