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* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: "''By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, . . . As a foulness shall ye know Them.''"
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]
* [[Hot Skitty -On -Wailord Action]]: An [[Eldritch Abomination]] who is coterminous with all time and space yet locked outside the universe we inhabit somehow impregnates a human woman.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Wilbur Whateley.
* {{spoiler|[[I'm Melting]]}}
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* [[Running Gag]]: The ''Dark Adventure'' version turns Zeb Whateley's insistence that Wilbur, et al are from "the decayed side of the Whateley family" into one.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The opening descriptions of the country around Dunwich.
* [[Shout -Out]]: To [[Arthur Machen (Creator)|Arthur Machen]]'s ''[[The Great God Pan (Literature)|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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_%28mythology%29:Pan chr(28)mythologychr(29)|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''.
** Another Machen example: Wilbur's diary, as decoded by Armitage, is clearly inspired by "The White People," which [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|purports]] to be the diary of a young girl's initiation into pagan witchcraft. The terms "Aklo" and "Voorish" also come from there.
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