The Shunned House

Overview:

  • Title: The Shunned House
  • Author: H. P. Lovecraft
  • Year: Unknown
  • Publisher:
  • Pages: 59
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Chapter Book
  • Title Reference: The Shunned House
  • Notes: Forgery of the 1928 Recluse Press edition.
    Photo-offset copies of the original bound in red cloth with quarter crushed red morocco spine lettered in gold bottom to top THE SHUNNED HOUSE—LOVECRAFT—1928.
    Copies have been observed with a copy of the Arkham House copyright cancel but without the Cook 1928 copyright underneath.
    Roy A. Squires (in Jaffery, below) states that the binding alone does not denote a forgery as legitimate copies of unbound sheets may have been eventually bound similarly.
    The first recorded copy of the forgery was seen in London in June 1966. [Currey]
    Paper stock watermarked "Chantry". [Currey]
    Jaffery The Arkham House Companion: 64.