Wilbur Whateley, precocious and monstrous son of a reclusive Dunwich family, holds part of the atrocious secret of the Necronomicon, the forbidden book. The secret cannot, must not be revealed to men: the forces of evil survive and can be invoked. Once unleashed, the world will know their apocalypse.

'No one, not even those who know the facts of the recent horror, can say exactly what is going on with Dunwich; although ancient legends speak of impious rites and covens of the Indians, in the midst of which they invoked forbidden shadows on the great rounded hills and performed wild orgiastic prayers answered by loud cracks and thunder underground.»

The Dunwich Horror is one of the most disturbing stories in horror literature. Santiago Caruso's illustrations are among the best graphic recreations of H. P. Lovecraft's imagination.