Chapter 6
The Dunwich horror itself came between Lammas and the equinox in
1928, and Dr Armitage was among those who witnessed its monstrous
prologue. He had heard, meanwhile, of Whateley's grotesque trip to
Cambridge, and of his frantic efforts to borrow or copy from the
Necronomicon at the Widener Library. Those efforts had been in
vain, since Armitage had issued warnings of the keenest intensity
to all librarians having charge of the dreaded volume. Wilbur had
been shockingly nervous at Cambridge; anxious for the book, yet
almost equally anxious to get home again, as if he feared the
results of being away long.
Early in August the half-expected outcome developed, and in the
small hours of the third Dr Armitage was awakened suddenly by the
wild, fierce cries of the savage wa
