The Whales of Dunwich

Earliest known poster for The Whales of Dunwich.

The Whales of Dunwich is a 1987 American horror film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Bette Davis and Lillian Gish as elderly sisters who watch for horrors from beyond time and space along the Maine coast.

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Fiction cross-reference

• At the Mountains of Christmas
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• In the Heat of Burnt Offerings
• Omoo: A Narrative of Horrors in the South Seas
• There's a Kind of Hush All Over R'lyeh
• Unnatural Treasure
• What Ever Happened to Baby Tut?

Categories

• Category:Films

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

Categories

• Category:Cthulhu (nonfiction)
• Category:The Whales of August (nonfiction)

External links

• Cthulhu @ Wikipedia
• Guillermo del Toro & ILM VFX test for the yet unmade Lovecraft's AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS @ YouTube
• The Cthulhu Mythos Timeline | Main Events & Timeline Of Cthulhu Explained @ YouTube
• The Complete Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft by HorrorBabble @ YouTube

• The Whales of August @ Wikipedia
• The Whales of August - trailer @ YouTube

• The Dunwich Horror (1970) - trailer @ YouTube

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