Howard Phillips Lovecraft

The Shunned House Howard Phillips Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. Sometimes it enters directly into the composition of 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.