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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: Whateley's youth, and of the strange things that are called out
of the earth when a bullock is sacrificed at the proper time to
certain heathen gods. It had for some time been noticed that dogs
had begun to hate and fear the whole Whateley place as violently
as they hated and feared young Wilbur personally.
In 1917 the
war came, and Squire Sawyer Whateley, as chairman of the local
draft board, had hard work finding a quota of young Dunwich men
fit even to be sent to development camp. The government, alarmed
at such signs of wholesale regional decadence, sent several officers
and medical experts to investigate; conducting a survey which
The Dunwich Horror |
