&quot;The Shunned House&quot; is a horror novella by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, written in October 1924 and first published in the October 1937 issue of <i>Weird Tales</i>.<br /><br />The narrator, a Providence, Rhode Island resident teams up with his beloved, antiquarian uncle in studying why a decrepit 18th century house has been left vacant for so long. It appears that anyone who lives in the house long enough goes crazy and/or wastes to death. Of course, our protagonists decide to spend an evening in the cellar of the house...<br /><br />This 1924 story is, in mood, sort of a rehearsal for Lovecraft&rsquo;s more successful &quot;The Case of Charles Dexter Ward&quot; from 1927.<br />Lovecraft links, at the story&rsquo;s beginning, the tale to his idol Edgar Allan Poe when he mentions that Poe passed by the site of real horrors when he spent time in Providence.