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Tonight, as the final episode of our October classic horror series, will be reading the opening

to the Dunridge horror, written in 1928 by H.P. Lovecraft. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Central Massachusetts.

It is considered one of the core stories of the Kathulu mythos. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

When a traveler in North Central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of the alsbury Pike just beyond Dean's corners, he comes upon a lonely and curious country. The ground gets higher, and the

rear-bordered stone walls press closer and closer against the ruts of the dusty curving road.

The trees of the frequent forest belts seem too large and the wild weeds, brambles and grasses attain

a luxuriance not often found in settled regions. At the same time the planted fields

appear singularly few and barren, while the sparsely scattered houses wear a surprising uniform aspect of age,

squaller, and elapidation. Without knowing why, one hesitates to ask directions from the gnarled

solitary figures spied now and then on crumbling doorsteps or in the sloping rock-strewn meadows.

Those figures are so silent and furtive that one feels somehow confronted by forbidden things, with which it would be

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