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The Horror at Red Hook

by H.P. Lovecraft

The Horror at Red Hook is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on August 1–2, 1925, it was first published in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales (Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 73–94). It is based on the urban legend of the Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, and tells the story of a New York City detective who encounters, and becomes involved in, a series of occult-related events.

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mistake, and the patient had paid in fright, bruises, and humiliation
for his disobedience.

So much the gossips of Chepachet and Pascoag knew; and so much, also,
the most learned specialists believed.  But Malone had at first told
the specialists much more, ceasing only when he saw that utter
incredulity was his portion.  Thereafter he held his peace,
protesting not at all when it was generally agreed that the collapse
of certain squalid brick houses in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn,
and the consequent death of many brave officers, had unseated his
nervous equilibrium.  He had worked too hard, all said, in trying to
clean up those nests of disorder and violence; certain features were
shocking enough, in all conscience, and the unexpected tragedy was
the last straw.  This was a simple explanation which everyone could
understand, and because Malone was not a simple person he perceived
that he had better let it suffice.  To hint to unimaginative people
of a horror beyond all human conception--a horror of houses and
blocks and cities leprous and cancerous with evil dragged from elder
worlds--would be merely to invite a padded cell instead of a restful

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The Horror at Red Hook

by H.P. Lovecraft

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