Short Fiction · Character
The Whateleys
The degenerate family of Dunwich involved in dark magic.
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Also known as the decadent Whateleys, witch Whateleys, Whateleys
First appearance: the dunwich horror
The Whateleys shows up with force in I. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Mentioned as one of the old families that still send eldest sons to Harvard and Miskatonic, though they seldom return to their moldering gambrel roofs.
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In I: Mentioned as one of the old families that still send eldest sons to Harvard and Miskatonic, though they seldom return to their moldering gambrel roofs. Later, in The Birth and Early Years of Wilbur Whateley:…
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