The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot. As the sound begins to haunt his dreams, he investigates the house and discovers a horrific secret underneath, which will bring him to the point of madness.Ĭonsidered one of the most accomplished examples of the horror genre, ‘The Rats in the Walls’ is presented here alongside other quintessentially Lovecraftian tales – such as ‘The Dunwich Horror’, ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, ‘The Colour out of Space’ and ‘The Horror at Red Hook’ – in a brand-new collection which will delight new readers and those familiar with the blood-curdling imaginary worlds of the twentieth century’s master of terror.Ĭontains: ‘The Statement of Randolph Carter’, ‘Arthur Jermyn’, ‘The Rats in the Walls’, ‘The Horror at Red Hook’, ‘The Colour out of Space’, ‘The Dunwich Horror’, ‘The Strange High House in the Mist’, ‘The Dreams in the Witch House’, ‘The Quest of Iranon’, ‘At the Mountains of Madness’, ‘The Shunned House’, ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’. There are eight short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The Dunwich Horror is the story of Wilbur Whateley, son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father, and the strange events surrounding his birth and.

Lovecraft, Len Goldberg (Illustrator) 3.81 Rating details 802 ratings 45 reviews This edition reprints seven stories appearing in the 1963 Arkham House edition.

When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued by the constant noise of rats scurrying within its walls. The Dunwich Horror: Seven Stories by H.P.

The dunwich horror and other stories