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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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greater number were instantly killed.  Only in the basements and
cellars was there much saving of life, and Malone was lucky to have
been deep below the house of Robert Suydam.  For he really was there,
as no one is disposed to deny.  They found him unconscious by the
edge of the night-black pool, with a grotesquely horrible jumble of
decay and bone, identifiable through dental work as the body of
Suydam, a few feet away.  The case was plain, for it was hither that
the smugglers' underground canal led; and the men who took Suydam
from the ship had brought him home.  They themselves were never
found, or identified; and the ship's doctor is not yet satisfied with
the certitudes of the police.

Suydam was evidently a leader in extensive man-smuggling operations,
for the canal to his house was but one of several subterranean
channels and tunnels in the neighborhood.  There was a tunnel from
this house to a crypt beneath the dance-hall church; a crypt
accessible from the church only through a narrow secret passage in
the north wall, and in whose chambers some singular and terrible

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The Horror at Red Hook

by H.P. Lovecraft

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