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• Title: The Shunned House
• Authors: H. P. Lovecraft
• Year: 1961-00-00
• Publisher: Recluse Press
• Price: $17.50
• Pages: 59
• Binding: hc
• Type: CHAPTERBOOK
• Title Reference: The Shunned House
• ISFDB Record Number: 297452
• Notes: "The Shunned House" was written in 1924 but rejected by Weird Tales. It was then offered to W. Paul Cook who printed 300 sets of sheets, but never bound them. Lovecraft himself hand-bound at least one copy in a personally crafted manila folder for presentation. Circa 1933, Cook gave Robert Barlow (Lovecraft's literary executor) 265 sets. For the next 20+ years copies were distributed in loose leaf by various parties. In the 50s, August Derleth purchased from Cook the remaining sets (approx. 150), and began distributing them as is. In 1961 he bound 100 copies in boards similar to Arkham House editions and sold them for $17.50 each. (this publication record).
  Reginald1 states that no copies were bound until 1936, and that the majority of the press run was stored and later bound by Arkham House in 1962.
• Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (THSHNNDHSG1964)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Shunned House • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• Preface to The Shunned House • (1928) • essay by Frank Belknap Long [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. ]

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