Lovecraft Retrospective: The Shunned House (Patreon)

George and I take a look at Lovecraft's closest approach to a traditional 'haunted house' ghost story.

All at once a fun ghost train ride, a pseudo-vampire tale, a love letter to Providence, an attempt to reconcile his contradictory beliefs on materialism and the supernatural, and to express his grief for his dead grandfather... and, oddly, a kind of anxious overview of American history as a war-torn family tragedy inside a morbid structure built illegitimately on stolen land...