Shunned House

Shunned House

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Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft

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1928

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the street. Its construction, over a century and a half ago, had followed the grading and straightening of the road in that especial vicinity; for Benefit Street--at first called Back Street--was laid out as a lane winding amongst the graveyards of the first settlers, and straightened only when the removal of the bodies to the North Burial Ground made it decently possible to cut through the old family plots.

At the start, the western wall had lain some twenty feet up a precipitous lawn from the roadway; but a widening of the street at about the time of the Revolution sheared off most of the intervening space, exposing the foundations so that a brick basement wall had to be made, giving the deep cellar a street frontage with the door and two windows above ground, close to the new line of public travel. When the sidewalk was laid out a century ago the last of the intervening space was removed; and Poe in his walks must have seen only a sheer ascent of dull grey brick flush with the sidewalk and surmounted at a height of ten feet by the antique shingled bulk of the house proper.

The farm-like grounds extended back very deeply up the hill, al most to Wheaton Street. The

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A pretty standard Lovecraft story, with a lot of opening exposition, and a supposedly horrifying event. Somewhat different in that the protagonist doesn't just run away, but comes back to face the monster.
It's Lovecraft writing, with a New England setting and all the usual Lovecraft adjectives, though he does spare us the word "hideous."
Interesting short story about a house where strange things happen to those who live there. A man is determined to investigate what's causing it.