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Dunwich (Lovecraft)
Dunwich (〔("H P Lovecraft, Dunwich Horror, Audiobook" )〕) is a fictional town that appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Dunwich Horror" (1929). Dunwich is found in the fictional Miskatonic River Valley of Massachusetts, part of the imaginary region sometimes called Lovecraft Country. The inhabitants are depicted as inbred, uneducated, and very superstitious, while the town itself is described as economically poor with many decrepit and abandoned buildings.
==Origin==
Lovecraft may have named the town after the lost port of Dunwich in Suffolk, England. This town was the subject (though not mentioned by name) of Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem "By the North Sea", which was in an anthology owned by Lovecraft. This Dunwich also appears in Arthur Machen's novella ''The Terror'' (1917), which Lovecraft is known to have read.
Lovecraft also could have been inspired by other New England towns with names ending in ''-wich'', such as Ipswich near Salem, Massachusetts, East and West Greenwich in Rhode Island, and Greenwich, Massachusetts, a rural town that has since been flooded to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Although the English town is pronounced "DUN-ich" (similar to the Rhode Island Greenwiches), Lovecraft never specified how he preferred his ''Dunwich'' be pronounced.〔Joshi, ''The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft'', note #14, p. 108.〕
Lovecraft is said to have based Dunwich on Athol, Massachusetts, and other towns in Western Massachusetts. S. T. Joshi has also seen Dunwich as being influenced by East Haddam, Connecticut, location of the "Devil's Hopyard," the "Moodus Noises," and a witch tradition.〔 Definitive version.〕
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