Henry Armitage, refuses to release the university's copy to him (and has, by sending warnings to other libraries, thwarted Wilbur's efforts to consult their copies), Wilbur breaks into the library at night to steal it. The Necronomicon has spells that Wilbur can use to summon the Old Ones, but his family's copy is damaged and lacks the page he needs to open the 'door'. Wilbur ventures to Miskatonic University in Arkham to procure their copy of the Necronomicon – Miskatonic's library is one of only a handful in the world to stock an original. The colossal entity eventually occupies the whole interior of the farmhouse. People begin to notice a trend of cattle mysteriously disappearing. Year by year, this unseen entity grows to monstrous proportions, requiring the two men to make frequent modifications to their residence. Wilbur and his grandfather have sequestered an unseen presence at their farmhouse this being is connected somehow to Yog-Sothoth. Various locals grow suspicious after Old Whateley buys more and more cattle, yet the number of his herd never increases, and the cattle in his field become mysteriously afflicted with severe open wounds. All the while, his sorcerer grandfather indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. Locals shun him and his family, and animals fear and despise him (due to his odor). Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade.

Strange events surround his birth and precocious development. In the isolated, desolate, decrepit village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as ' Yog-Sothoth').

The dunwich horror by hp lovecraft