[오늘의 한문장] 금단의 저택 The Shunned House

Now the irony is this. In this walk, so many times repeated, the world‘s greatest master of the terrible and the bizzare 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 and dating from a time when the region was partly open country. - P12

[오늘의 한문장] 금단의 저택 The Shunned House

The latter sort is splendidly exemplified by a case in the ancient city of Providence, where in the late forties 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 Street--the renamed Golden Ball Inn whose roof has sheltered Washington, Jefferson, and Lafayette--and his favorite walk led northward along the same street to Mrs. Whitman‘s home and the neighboring hillside churchyard of St.John‘, whose hidden expanse of Eighteenth Century gravestones had for him a peculiar fascination.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 금단의 저택 The Shunned House

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.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 금단의 저택 The Shunned House

The Shunned House

By H. P. LOVE CRAFT

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A posthumous story of immense power, written by a master of weird fiction--a tale of a revolting horror in the cellar of an old house in New England

- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 금단의 저택 The Shunned House

■ 저자 소개

H.P. 러브크래프트(,1890~1937)는 ‘미지의 괴물‘이라는 공포소설의 새로운 영역을 개척한 인물입니다. ‘어둠의 톨킨‘이라는 별명을 가지고 있는 러브크래프트는 <<크툴루 신화>>라는 시리즈를 통해 기괴하고 무시무시한 괴물들을 선보이며 공포소설의 독보적인 위치에 올랐습니다. 러브크래프트는 스티븐 킹 등 수많은 공포소설 작가들에게 지대한 영향을 끼쳤습니다.
- P3