Gary Scott Beatty's Strange Horror

Gary Scott Beatty's Strange Horror

Meet the Dunwich Townies

They have no clue what's coming.

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Gary Scott Beatty
Sep 11, 2025
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The Dunwich Townies.

This is how H.P. Lovecraft describes the townsfolk of Dunwich in 1928's "The Dunwich Horror."

"…the natives are now repellently decadent, having gone far along that path of retrogression so common in many New England backwaters. They have come to form a race by themselves, with the well-defined mental and physical stigmata of degenera…

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