Chapter 9
Friday morning Armitage, Rice, and Morgan set out by motor for
Dunwich, arriving at the village about one in the afternoon. The
day was pleasant, but even in the brightest sunlight a kind of
quiet dread and portent seemed to hover about the strangely domed
hills and the deep, shadowy ravines of the stricken region. Now and
then on some mountain top a gaunt circle of stones could be
glimpsed against the sky. From the air of hushed fright at Osborn's
store they knew something hideous had happened, and soon learned of
the annihilation of the Elmer Frye house and family. Throughout
that afternoon they rode around Dunwich, questioning the natives
concerning all that had occurred, and seeing for themselves with
rising pangs of horror the drear Frye ruins with their lingerin
