Chapter 5
The following winter brought an event no less strange than
Wilbur's first trip outside the Dunwich region. Correspondence with
the Widener Library at Harvard, the Bibliothèque Nationale in
Paris, the British Museum, the University of Buenos Ayres, and the
Library of Miskatonic University at Arkham had failed to get him
the loan of a book he desperately wanted; so at length he set out
in person, shabby, dirty, bearded, and uncouth of dialect, to
consult the copy at Miskatonic, which was the nearest to him
geographically. Almost eight feet tall, and carrying a cheap new
valise from Osborne's general store, this dark and goatish gargoyle
appeared one day in Arkham in quest of the dreaded volume kept
under lock and key at the college library - the hideous
Necronomicon of
