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* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]
* [[Author Avatar]]: Disturbingly enough, Wilbur may have been one.
{{quote| "Wilbur's being raised by a grandfather instead of a father, his home education from his grandfather's library, his insane mother, his stigma of ugliness (in Lovecraft's case untrue, but a self-image imposed on him by his mother), and his sense of being an outsider all echo Lovecraft himself." - Robert M. Price in the introduction to ''[http://www.amazon.com/Dunwich-Cycle-Where-Cthulhu-Books/dp/156882047X The Dunwich Cycle]''.}}
** [[Reality Subtext]]
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The professors.
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* {{spoiler|[[I'm Melting]]}}
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Um. . .
{{quote| "I dun't keer what folks think—ef Lavinny's boy looked like his pa, he wouldn't look like nothin' ye expeck. Ye needn't think the only folks is the folks hereabouts. Lavinny's read some, an' has seed some things the most o' ye only tell abaout. I calc'late her man is as good a husban' as ye kin find this side of Aylesbury; an' ef ye knowed as much abaout the hills as I dew, ye wouldn't ast no better church weddin' nor her'n."}}
* {{spoiler|[[Invisible Monster]]: The titular horror.}}
* [[Lovecraft Country]]: [[Trope Namer|Natch]].
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: The opening descriptions of the country around Dunwich.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan]]'', Lovecraft's primary inspiration for "The Dunwich Horror."
{{quote| "Inbreeding? . . . God, what simpletons! Show them Arthur Machen's ''Great God Pan'' and they'll think it a common Dunwich scandal! But what thing - what cursed shapeless influence on or off this three-dimensional earth - was Wilbur Whateley's father?"}}
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Wilbur is often described as "goatish." The Classical Pan is [[wikipedia:Pan (mythology)|often depicted]] with the [http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&biw=1280&bih=831&tbm=isch&tbnid=VG7w0DFkP5qrQM:&imgrefurl=http://outlandish-knight.blogspot.com/2011/06/great-god-pan.html&docid=cmg29SjEiJ7lxM&imgurl=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lLGajAt96BQ/TffPU9U7jeI/AAAAAAAACv4/rv2AKZh88h8/s1600/Pan%25252BGod.jpg&w=313&h=411&ei=5EnBTpiVNMjy0gH7mpzvBA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=242&sig=113862698477808175622&page=1&tbnh=129&tbnw=98&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0&tx=56&ty=54 attributes of a goat], similar to fauns, satyrs, and, of course, [[Satan]].
** Armitage's brief monologue that closes the story also recalls some of the speeches by Dr. Raymond in ''Great God Pan''.
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