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2 unusual facts about The Horror at Red Hook


Red Hook

The Horror at Red Hook, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, set in Red Hook, Brooklyn

The Horror at Red Hook

A "Dublin University man born in a Georgian villa near Phoenix Park," he is said to have "the Celt's far vision of weird and hidden things, but the logician's quick eye for the outwardly unconvincing.... In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things, and had been a poet; but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions, and he had thrilled at the imputations of evil in the world around."



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