Short Fiction · Character
Lavinia Whateley
An albino recluse on the Dunwich hillside, mother to Wilbur, whispered about for the queer child and the queerer father.
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Also known as Lavinia, Lavinny
First appearance: the dunwich horror
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Albino mother of Wilbur, aged 35; deformed, superstitious, and proud of her son; wanders the hills and reads old occult books.
Lavinia lives with her father Old Whateley in a decaying farmhouse above Dunwich, tolerated and avoided by neighbors who remember her wild youth. She is tied to Wilbur by something more than motherhood, and her presence in the story is a quiet dread beneath the louder horrors of the farm. What she knows about her son's parentage and the rites on Sentinel Hill makes her the human hinge on which Dunwich's ruin turns.
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See Lavinia Whateley in the dunwich horror