The Shunned House (Annotated) The Shunned House (Annotated)

The Shunned House (Annotated‪)‬

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Publisher Description

"The Shunned House" is a book by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. Written on October 16–19, 1924, it was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales.


The Shunned House of the title is based on an actual house in Providence, Rhode Island, built around 1763 and still standing at 135 Benefit Street; Lovecraft was familiar with the house because his aunt, Lillian Clark, lived there in 1919-20 as a companion to Mrs. H. C. Babbit.

But it was another home in Elizabeth, New Jersey that actually provoked Lovecraft to write the story. As he wrote in a letter:

On the northeast corner of Bridge Street and Elizabeth Avenue is a terrible old house — a hellish place where night-black deeds must have been done in the early seventeen-hundreds — with a blackish unpainted surface, unnaturally steep roof, and an outside flight of stairs leading to the second story, suffocatingly embowered in a tangle of ivy so dense that one cannot but imagine it accursed or corpse-fed. It reminded me of the Babbit House in Benefit Street.... Later its image came up again with renewed vividness, finally causing me to write a new horror story with its scene in Providence and with the Babbit House as its basis.

This book has also been annotated, with additional information about the poetry and its author, including an overview, inspiration, plot, characters, release details, reception, biographical and bibliographical information.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2015
December 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
96
Pages
PUBLISHER
Bronson Tweed Publishing
SELLER
Christopher Hochman
SIZE
682.8
KB
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