"The Shunned House" Quotes
"The Shunned House" by H.P. Lovecraft is a chilling tale of a haunted house in Providence, Rhode Island, where a morbid family history and supernatural forces entwine to terrorize its inhabitants.
horror | 48 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
It is only human to take a delight in the sense of mystery.
Never before did I glimpse so colossal and saturnine a morbidity of expression.
There is no beauty here—no sunlight, no greenery, no friendly animals, no birds, no flowers, no little rivers or lily-pools.
The hours were long and heavy, and there was nausea in the air.
There was an almost venomous acridity as of venomous acid in the air.
There was something abnormal about the odour of this lingering filthy stench.
For that house, as I said before, has its history.
The house had been shunned and deserted ever since the terrible tragedy in 1763.
I could not help feeling that some influence from beyond the uninsurable had an active hand in governing the phenomenal and the bizarre here.
The spectral wood seemed as close to the house as the street.
