The Shunned House

The Shunned House
by H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft died in March 1937, at the height of his career. Though only forty-six years of age, he had built up an international reputation by the artistry and impeccable literary craftsmanship of his weird tales; and he was regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as probably the greatest contemporary master of weird fiction.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. Sometimes it enters directly into the composition of the events, while sometimes it relates only to their fortuitous position among persons and places. The latter sort is splendidly exemplified by a case in the ancient city of Providence, where in the late forties Edgar Allan Poe used to sojourn often during his unsuccessful wooing of the gifted poetess, Mrs. Whitman. Poe generally stopped at the Mansion House in Benefit Streetthe renamed Golden Ball Inn whose roof has sheltered Washington, Jefferson, and Lafayetteand his favorite walk led northward along the same street to Mrs. Whitman's home and the neighboring hillside churchyard of St. John's, whose hidden expanse of Eighteenth Century gravestones had for him a peculiar fascination.

The Shunned House is a horrific story that will haunt you. Written by one of the most influential horror writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft, this disturbing story leads you to the horror found in the basement of a dark, old house in Providence, Rhode Island.

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