The Dunwich Horror

What is the significance of the Horror's birth in the short story, The Dunwich Horror?

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The author uses Wilbur and the Horror's birth to act as a symbol for the entrance of evil into the human world. Only after their births does the town lose its natural order. Presumably, the two's births act as a herald to the coming of their father, Yog-Sothoth, and the Old Ones.

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The Dunwich Horror