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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: New England newspaper readers may still recall. It was the publicity
attending this investigation which set reporters on the track
of the Whateleys, and caused the Boston Globe and Arkham Advertiser
to print flamboyant Sunday stories of young Wilbur's precociousness,
Old Whateley's black magic, and the shelves of strange books,
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
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