【英文读物】The Shunned House
19页1、【英文读物】The Shunned Housechapter 1 A posthumous story of immense power, written by a master of weird fictiona tale of a revolting horror in the cellar of an old house in New England 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 forti
2、es 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 Streetthe renamed Golden Ball Inn whose roof has sheltered Washington, Jefferson, and Lafayetteand his favorite walk led northward along the same street to Mrs. Whitmans home and the neighboring hillside churchyard of St. Johns, whose hidden expanse of Eighteenth Century gravestones had for him a peculiar fascination. Howard Phillips L
3、ovecraft died last March, at the height of his career. Though only forty-six years of age, he had built up an international reputation by the artistry and impeccable literary craftsmanship of his weird tales; and he was regarded on both sides of the Atlantic as probably the greatest contemporary master of weird fiction. His ability to create and sustain a mood of brooding dread and unnamable horror is nowhere better shown than in the posthumous tale presented here: The Shunned House.Now the iron
4、y is this. In this walk, so many times repeated, the worlds greatest master of the terrible and the bizarre was obliged to pass a particular house on the eastern side of the street; a dingy, antiquated structure perched on the abruptly rising side hill, with a great unkempt yard dating from a time when the region was partly open country. It does not appear that he ever wrote or spoke of it, nor is there any evidence that he even noticed it. And yet that house, to the two persons in possession of
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