It's my birthday, and as a gift to myself, I recorded the following HP Lovecraft Classic,

which just so happens to include one of my very favorite haunted house tropes.

The house built on a burial ground.

Maybe I like to pick a cool cause to support on my birthday too, so I'm going to enlist

your help.

For the month of April, I will donate all proceeds from Ghosts in the Burbs merch to Wellesley

Books Prison Book Program.

Check out the merch tab at Ghosts in the Burbs.com for all the links, and you can find the link

on my Instagram page too.

Now, let's get to the story.

As with the other classic haunts, Tails, I found this one at Project Gutenberg.com.

Here is The Shundh House by HP Lovecraft.

Introduction.

A posh-chimous story of immense power, written by a master of weird fiction, the tale of

a revolting horror in the cellar of an old house in New England.

Or 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 40s, Edgar Ellen Poe used to sojourn, often during his unsuccessful

wooing of the gifted Poetus Mrs. Whitman.

He would generally stop at the mansion house in Benefit Street, the renamed Golden Ball

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