The Black Brat of Dunwich

"The Black Brat of Dunwich" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by American author Stanley C. Sargent, first published in issue #10 of the zine Cthulhu Codex in 1997. It retells the story of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" from a different perspective, painting Wilbur Whateley in a far more sympathetic light, and conversely Henry Armitage as the story's villain.
==Synopsis==
Two men writing the first definitive account of the Dunwich horror of 1928 encounter an old man who claims to have been employed for a time as Wilbur Whateley's tutor. He reveals the truth of those events: that Henry Armitage and Old Whateley were working together to bring about the return of the Outer God Yog-Sothoth, along with Wilbur's loneliness as a pariah and reluctance to be a part of the plot.
After his grandfather's death, Wilbur worked tirelessly to find a way to contain of perhaps even destroy his brother. However, requiring a copy of the Necronomicon to access the necessary spells, he was thwarted by Armitage, necessitating his fatal trip to Miskatonic University, whose watchmen Armitage had recently supplied with guard dogs- animals the Professor knew would attack the boy on sight.
The story ends with the revelation that Armitage had used his knowledge of magic not to destroy the Dunwich Horror, but to allow it to slip beneath the earth to join its kin: the source of the strange noises often heard near Dunwich, and the cause of the many hills and mounds to be found growing in the surrounding area…
==Publication History==
*Cthulhu Codex #10 (1997)
*The Ancient Track (1998)
*The Taint of Lovecraft (2002)
*The Black Book #2 (2002)
*Tales Out of Dunwich (2005)
*The Book of Cthulhu II (2012)
*A Mountain Walked (2014)
Category:Expanded Mythos Works
Category:Stanley C. Sargent works
Category:Dunwich