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Publication History
 
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[The Shunned House. Athol, MA: The Recluse Press, 1928, 9–59.]
Weird Tales, 30, No. 4 (October 1937), 418–36.
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971, 111–38.
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels. Ed. S.T. Joshi. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1985, 235–61.
The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996, 189–212.
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1997, 30–51.
More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. Ed. S.T. Joshi and Peter Cannon. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1999, 83–122.
From the Pest Zone: The New York Stories. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press, 29 January 2003, 35–57.
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 2004, 90–115.
H.P. Lovecraft: Tales. New York, NY: The Library of America, 2005, 97–124.
Shadows of Death. New York, NY: Del Rey, 2005, 103–131.
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft. London: Gollancz, 2008, 233–253.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2008, 292–313.
The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010, 2: 323–41.
The Other Gods and More Unearthly Tales. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2010, 192–215.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, 2011, 292–313.
 
The Shunned House
 
By H. P. Lovecraft
 
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I.
 
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 Street—the renamed Golden Ball Inn whose roof has sheltered Washington, Jefferson, and Lafayette—and his favourite walk led northward along the same street to Mrs. Whitman’s home and the neighbouring hillside churchyard of St. John’s, whose hidden expanse of eighteenth-century gravestones had for him a peculiar fascination.
Now the irony is this. In this walk, so many times repeated, the world’s greatest master of the terrible an ............

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