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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: the sealed second storey of the ancient farmhouse, and the weirdness
of the whole region and its hill noises. Wilbur was four and a
half then, and looked like a lad of fifteen. His lips and cheeks
were fuzzy with a coarse dark down, and his voice had begun to
break.
Earl Sawyer went out to the Whateley place with both
sets of reporters and camera men, and called their attention to
the queer stench which now seemed to trickle down from the sealed
upper spaces. It was, he said, exactly like a smell he had found
in the toolshed abandoned when the house was finally repaired;
and like the faint odours which he sometimes thought he caught
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