The Dunwich horror, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

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by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft · 1890–1937

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"The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft is a cosmic horror novella written in 1928. In the decaying Massachusetts village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley grows at an unnatural rate, aided by his sorcerer grandfather in dark rituals connected to the entity Yog-Sothoth. When a monstrous invisible presence escapes their farmhouse and terrorizes the countryside, three professors from Miskatonic University must confront an otherworldly horror that defies human comprehension. This tale of forbidden knowledge and cosmic terror is considered a core story of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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79 min
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17,352
Chapters
1
Paragraphs
162
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  • American fiction -- 20th century
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Horror tales
The Dunwich horror

For a decade the annals of the Whateleys sink indistinguishably into the general life of a morbid community used to their queer ways and hardened to their May Eve and All-Hallow orgies.

Durante una década, los anales de los Whateley se hunden indistinguibles en la vida general de una comunidad mórbida, acostumbrada a sus extrañas costumbres y endurecida ante sus orgías de la Noche de las Brujas y de Todos los Santos.

Twice a year they would light fires on the top of Sentinel Hill, at which times the mountain rumblings would recur with greater and greater violence; while at all seasons there were strange and portentous doings at the lonely farmhouse.

Dos veces al año encendían fuegos en la cima de Sentinel Hill, y en esos momentos los rugidos de la montaña se repetían con una violencia cada vez mayor; mientras que en todas las estaciones había extraños y presagiosos sucesos en la solitaria granja.

In the course of time callers professed to hear sounds in the sealed upper story even when all the family were downstairs, and they wondered how swiftly or how lingeringly a cow or bullock was usually sacrificed.

Con el paso del tiempo, los visitantes afirmaban oír sonidos en el piso superior sellado incluso cuando toda la familia estaba abajo, y se preguntaban con qué rapidez o con qué lentitud se solía sacrificar a una vaca o a un buey.

There was talk of a complaint to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; but nothing ever came of it, since Dunwich folk are never anxious to call the outside world's attention to themselves.

Se habló de presentar una queja ante la Sociedad para la Prevención de la Crueldad hacia los Animales; pero nada llegó a buen puerto, ya que la gente de Dunwich nunca tiene prisa por llamar la atención del mundo exterior sobre sí misma.

About 1923, when Wilbur was a boy of ten whose mind, voice, stature, and bearded face gave all the impressions of maturity, a second great siege of carpentry went on at the old house.

Alrededor de 1923, cuando Wilbur era un niño de diez años cuya mente, voz, estatura y rostro barbudo daban todas las impresiones de madurez, se llevó a cabo una segunda gran campaña de carpintería en la vieja casa.

It was all inside the sealed upper part, and from bits of discarded lumber people concluded that the youth and his grandfather had knocked out all the partitions and even removed the attic floor,

Todo ocurría dentro de la parte superior sellada, y a partir de los restos de madera desechada, la gente concluía que el joven y su abuelo habían derribado todas las divisiones e incluso retirado el suelo del ático,

leaving only one vast open void between the ground story and the peaked roof.

dejando solo un vasto vacío abierto entre la planta baja y el tejado a dos aguas.

They had torn down the great central chimney, too, and fitted the rusty range with a flimsy outside tin stove-pipe.

También habían derribado la gran chimenea central y habían adaptado la herrumbrada cocina con una frágil tubería de estufa de hojalata en el exterior.

In the spring after this event Old Whateley noticed the growing number of whippoorwills that would come out of Cold Spring Glen to chirp under his window at night.

En la primavera siguiente a este suceso, el Viejo Whateley notó el creciente número de chotacabras que salían del Cold Spring Glen para cantar bajo su ventana por la noche.

He seemed to regard the circumstance as one of great significance, and told the loungers at Osborn's that he thought his time had almost come.

Parecía considerar la circunstancia como de gran importancia, y les dijo a los holgazanes en Osborn's que creía que su hora estaba casi a punto de llegar.

"They whistle jest in tune with my breathin' naow," he said, "an' I guess they're gittin' ready to ketch my soul.

«Solo silban al compás de mi respiración ahora», dijo, «y supongo que se están preparando para atrapar mi alma.

They know it's a-goin' aout, an' dun't calc'late to miss it.

Saben que se va, y no calculan perderla.

Yew'll know, boys, arter I'm gone, whether they git me er not.

Ustedes sabrán, chicos, después de que me haya ido, si me atrapan o no.

Ef they dew, they'll keep up a-singin' an' laffin' till break o' day.

Si lo hacen, seguirán cantando y riendo hasta el amanecer.

Ef they dun't, they'll kinder quiet daown like.

Si no lo hacen, se calmarán un poco.

I expeck them an' the souls they hunts fer hev some pretty tough tussles sometimes."

Espero que ellos y las almas que cazan tengan a veces peleas bastante duras».

About the author

H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft1890–1937

H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft was an American writer born in 1890 and died in 1937.

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Original language
English
Translation
Spanish, machine translation
Source text
Project Gutenberg #50133
Licence
Public domain worldwide

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