Dunwich

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fictional location fictional village setting

Dunwich is a fictional, decaying rural village in H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, best known as the eerie setting of the story “The Dunwich Horror.”

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dunwich canonical 1
Dunwich, Massachusetts 1

Statements (37)

Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location ⓘ
fictional village ⓘ
setting ⓘ
appearsIn The Dunwich Horror NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWithDeity Yog-Sothoth NERFINISHED ⓘ
country United States (fictionalized) NERFINISHED ⓘ
creator H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ
describedAs backwoods community ⓘ
decaying rural village ⓘ
isolated ⓘ
fictionalStatus nonexistent in real geography ⓘ
firstAppearance The Dunwich Horror NERFINISHED ⓘ
firstPublicationYear 1929 ⓘ
genre cosmic horror ⓘ
weird fiction ⓘ
hasFeature ancient, crumbling buildings ⓘ
bleak hills ⓘ
dilapidated farmhouses ⓘ
rural decay ⓘ
hasNotableCharacter Lavinia Whateley NERFINISHED ⓘ
Old Whateley NERFINISHED ⓘ
Wilbur Whateley NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasNotableEvent The Dunwich Horror incident NERFINISHED ⓘ
birth of Wilbur Whateley ⓘ
hasNotableFamily Whateley family NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTheme degeneration ⓘ
isolation ⓘ
occult practices ⓘ
inspiredBy rural New England towns ⓘ
languageOfName English ⓘ
locatedIn Massachusetts (fictional) NERFINISHED ⓘ
New England (fictional) NERFINISHED ⓘ
medium literature ⓘ
namedAfter Dunwich, Suffolk (possible inspiration) NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED ⓘ
publishedIn Weird Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedAsSettingIn later Cthulhu Mythos works by other authors ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cthulhu Mythos → includesLocation → Dunwich ⓘ
The Dunwich Horror → settingLocation → Dunwich ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dunwich, Massachusetts