The Strange High House in the Mist

Written in 1926 after his return to Providence, “The Strange High House in the Mist”—together with “The Silver Key”--is one of first of his short stories to unite successfully a detailed description of the New England landscape with the possibilities of the dream. This method of uniting the realisti......more

What is the secret of the strange and lonely house on the hill? How do you get there? Thomas Olney finds his way up and experiences historic events of the past no one heard before. He comes to know about Atlantis, the old Gods, Nodens (there is also a modern novel out named 'The House of Nodens'), a......more

This story made me aware of one of the problems with Lovecraft, or perhaps one of his strengths if one prefers that sort of thing, and it is the way that he describes characters having interacted and spoken, rather than actually writing the conversation or interaction. Thus everything feels like a s......more

2.5* rounded up to three. The idea of a mysterious, haunted or eerie house sat on top of a hill brushing the sky really intrigued me. The journey, the expectation and the potential was huge as I read the first three pages with anticipation. Then it ended and I was disappointed as the story should've......more

A philosopher of means (but still unemployed) finds his way to a mysterious lonely house atop a high seaward crag. He communes with a number of dreamlike oceanic entities and then returns to solid suburbia, touched, but untouched, he leaves the mysteries behind and never seeks them again. 3, 'Mysteri......more