Lovecraft´s The Dunwich Horror Now For Sale

Free League’s main bread and butter is tabletop games, but they also have a side business we sometimes hear about — book publishing. Last year they published a new edition of a classic HP Lovecraft book and this year they’ve done it again, specifically with his tale The Dunwich Horror.

Lovecraft wrote the novella in 1928 and it was published for the first time in the magazine Weird Tales the next year. Free League’s version contains the whole story with large illustrations on every page by artist François Baranger. Baranger’s art will be reproduced in a large 262 X 350mm folio format, bringing Lovecraft’s chilling story to life. He’s the illustrator of Free League’s previous Lovecraft books, The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness.

In the remote Massachusetts village of Dunwich, lost in the depths of the inhospitable countryside with its dark, bramble-covered valleys, ancient witch stories live on, and strange underground noises sometimes echo beneath the hills topped by mysterious stone circles.

On an isolated farm in the area, the simple-minded Lavinia Whateley gives birth to a child, Wilbur, whose father is unknown. Old Whateley, Lavinia’s father, raises Wilbur with the distrust of the locals, who are frightened by the child’s rapid growth and repulsive face. Rumors of witchcraft have always circulated about old Whateley, and after his death, Wilbur, as an adult, seems determined to increase the ungodly knowledge that was passed to him.

To this end, he travels to Miskatonic University in Arkham to borrow the copy of the sinister Necronomicon that resides in its famous library. Professor Armitage, understanding the malicious intentions of his visitor, refuses to grant his request. Determined to get the book, Wilbur tries to break into the library at night, triggering a series of tragic events…

You can order The Dunwich Horror starting today at the Free League webstore; a retail version is coming soon.