H. P. Lovecraft
The Shunned House
Published: 1937
Language: English
Estimated Reading Time: ~4 hours
A free public-domain edition of H. P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House, prepared by Unspeakable Tales.
A Providence house with a history of sickness and death becomes the focus of a rational investigation into something buried beneath it.
A Providence house with a history of sickness and death becomes the focus of a rational investigation into something buried beneath it.
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This Unspeakable Tales edition presents The Shunned House as a free designed eBook for readers of haunted-house fiction, antiquarian horror, and New England weirdness.
The story combines local history, family records, folklore, and scientific curiosity as its investigators try to explain a malign presence attached to a single old building.
It is one of Lovecraft's strongest haunted-location tales, grounded in place and history while still reaching toward something inhuman below the surface.
The story combines local history, family records, folklore, and scientific curiosity as its investigators try to explain a malign presence attached to a single old building.
It is one of Lovecraft's strongest haunted-location tales, grounded in place and history while still reaching toward something inhuman below the surface.