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The Shunned House

H.P. Lovecraft

Kindle Edition | Pages: 48 pages

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Title	:	The Shunned House
Author	:	H.P. Lovecraft
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 48 pages
Published	:	(first published 1937)
Categories	:	Horror. Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Fantasy. Lovecraftian

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Written in October of 1924, "The Shunned House" is not only Lovecraft's best early novella but also one of the two watershed works which mark his transition to the themes and style of his mature period. As such, it is not only a pleasure to read but also an important work for anyone who is interested in the development of H.P. Lovecraft the writer.


It was written during the early period of his marriage, when Lovecraft and his wife were living in Brooklyn and he had already become uneasy--but not fearful, as he would later become in Red Hook--of the dark faces and diverse cultures found near the great city of New York. It seems he may have been homesick for Rhode Island too, for--although the plot of this tale was first inspired by another house in Elizabeth, New Jersey--he chose to locate it in a house (once lived in by his aunt) located in the familiar streets of Providence.

The shunned house of the title has long been an object of fascination for the narrator, a fascination he shares with his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple. The narrator summarizes the strange lore the good doctor has collected about the house, lore filled with unexplained sicknesses and deaths, and follows this with his personal account of what happened when he and his uncle ventured inside the old house.

The story is memorable not only because of our investigators' use of an electrical device to dispel supernatural phenomena (common in other weird stories of the period, but not common in Lovecraft) but also because of the artful accumulation of precise details (the white phosphorescence, the foul odor, the yellow mist, the outline of a figure on a wall). What sticks in the mind more than these, however, are the nostalgia for the familiar streets of Providence and how it contrasts with the utter alien nature of the thing discovered within the house.

It is the the union of these two--a profound sense of place, and the fear of the alien other which disrupts it--which will be the key to the terror evoked by the great Lovecraft tales to come.

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Original Title:	The Shunned House ASIN B003ARTKJW
Edition Language:	English

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I've just reread it, and was surprised how good I thought it was. Better than I remembered. sure, not HPL's best by a long shot but not bad either. HPL takes his time building atmosphere, blending everything with his antiquatianism, which is quite cool. And it certainly is an unusual vampire story... of sorts;-)

"The horror was gone".

This is the story of a house that has a gothic creepiness to it and which has been around for centuries with a history of death and madness. In other words, exactly the kind of house HP Lovecraft would write about.But this isn't Lovecraft at his best. He writes about the history of the house with boring detail, going into the lives of its occupants too much, talking ambiguously about how they died mysteriously and hinting of evil below the surface. This goes on for most of the book until the

The concept of the toxic locality is interesting, the detailed history not so much. I found the death of the poor old uncle more moving than the supposed horror itself. Although I was amused that (view spoiler)[it could be destroyed with sulphuric acid. (hide spoiler)] Very practical

A classic Lovecraft tale with a little paranormal investigation. Fun stuff.

In this story you will do some research together with the first person narrator why the dilapidated house in Benefit Street is shunned and regarded as uncanny. You will hear everything about the families who lived there, come to know, that Poe walked by this house and in the second section of this longer story you will stay at night in this scary building. What is the reason behind the inexplicable death of relatively many people? Why did they wither away at that place? You learn about the

This was my first Lovecraft read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.I know, starting with a short story is not the place to start yet it is what I managed to get my hands on. I wasnt about to turn it down due to the fact it is not one of his big hits. A read by Lovecraft any read was going to be devoured so I could find out what he was about and whether I wished to continue on to read more.It is safe to say, I will be reading more.Short stories never really give you everything there is to know about