The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. Encouraged, he started circulating his stories he was 31 at the time of his first publication in a professional magazine, within a few years he was a regular contributor to newly founded Weird Tales magazine. In 1913 his conduct of a long running controversy in the letters page of a story magazine led to his being invited to participate in an amateur journalism association. In early adulthood he was established in a reclusive 'nightbird' lifestyle without occupation or pursuit of romantic adventures.

Intellectually precocious but sensitive, Lovecraft had begun composing rudimentary horror tales and had begun to be overwhelmed by feelings of anxiety by the age of eight. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.H. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely.

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