NP but Pyncheon

[Mark Kohut]

Because of some on this list--you know who you are---I too have gotten a copy of The House of the Seven Gables to read. ( I could write reread but that would be wrong)

Two misc. things. Since it is about the Pyncheon family home for a couple centuries, it is not that surprising that "the lot" is referred to in the intro by Hawthorne.(Bantam edition)

And: The novel was an inspiration for horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, who called it "New England's greatest contribution to weird literature" in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature". Seven Gables likely influenced Lovecraft's short stories "The Picture in the House", "The Shunned House" and novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.[5]
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