The Shunned House is a horror fiction novelette by American author H P Lovecraft written on October 1619 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 Howev...