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    "The Horror at Red Hook" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on August 1–2, 1925. "Red Hook" is a transitional tale, situated...
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    Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, United States, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. It is located on a peninsula...
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  • The Ballad of Black Tom is a 2016 fantasy-horror novella by Victor LaValle, revisiting H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Horror at Red Hook" from the viewpoint...
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    appeared in The Dunwich Horror, and Professor William Dyer, who appeared in At the Mountains of Madness. Later authors would people the university with...
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  • DeBill Jr. is an author of horror and science fiction short stories and a contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos. He created the parallel Mlandoth Cycle. A...
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    "The Dunwich Horror" is a horror novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales...
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    the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. The first seed of the story's first chapter The Horror in Clay came from one of Lovecraft's own dreams...
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    combined the biblical names Anathoth (Jeremiah's home town) and Azazel—mentioned by Lovecraft in "The Dunwich Horror". Price also points to the alchemical...
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    Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House", At the Mountains of Madness, p. 293. H. P. Lovecraft, "The Thing on the Doorstep", The Dunwich Horror and Others...
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    horror by showing that the common sense views of physics and nature (that is, the old Newtonian views) are the comforting fantasy. In contrast, the counterintuitive...
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    as Thomas Malone in "The Horror at Red Hook" (1925) and Henry Armitage in "The Dunwich Horror"; like Willett, Armitage "defeats the 'villains' by incantations...
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    Lovecraft's 1925 short story "The Horror at Red Hook". Lilith appears in One Step Beyond, season 3, episode 16 "Midnight". In the Netflix series First Kill...
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  • "Under the Pyramids" "The Unnamable" "In the Vault" "The Outsider" "The Horror at Red Hook" "The Colour Out of Space" "Pickman's Model" "The Call of...
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  • a villain in the DC Comics maxiseries Crisis on Infinite Earths. Mormo is informally introduced in H. P. Lovecraft's "Horror at Red Hook". Kenneth Hite's...
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    appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story "The Hound", written in...
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  • the goddess Hekate. The Horror at Red Hook by H. P. Lovecraft (1925), describes an inscription to Hecate, Gorgo, and Mormo, found in the raid of Red Hook...
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    mentioned in other works, before being described in detail in his novella At the Mountains of Madness (1931). It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster...
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  • Yaldabaoth (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Christ escaped from the bodily shell and returned in the spiritual world. In H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Horror at Red Hook (1925), Robert Suydam...
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    Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable...
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    Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom, Dagon is featured as the ruler of the Undersea Kingdom (Y'ha-nthlei). In the RuneScape quest "Horror from the Deep", its...
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    Cthulhu (category Horror villains)
    Letters) and made the character a central reference in his works. The short story "The Dunwich Horror" (1928) refers to Cthulhu, while "The Whisperer in Darkness"...
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    Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Complex (category Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn)
    mentions the complex in passing in his story "The Horror at Red Hook", speaking of its "iron-railed yard of Netherlandish gravestones". The Church House...
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    Pickman's Model (category Horror short stories)
    dialogue. Like the Brooklyn neighborhood portrayed in Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook", Boston's North End is depicted as a rundown section inhabited...
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    In Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895), a collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys")...
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    story "The Hounds of Tindalos", first published in the March 1929 issue of Weird Tales. Lovecraft mentions the creatures in his short story "The Whisperer...
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    H. P. Lovecraft's name for the literary philosophy he developed and used for his fiction. Lovecraft was a writer of horror stories that involve occult...
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    nickname for Tsathoggua's creator, Clark Ashton Smith). Later, in "The Horror in the Museum", a story ghost-written by Lovecraft, he writes, Black Tsathoggua...
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    "The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator...
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    such as "The Haunter of the Dark" (Liber Ivonis), "The Dreams in the Witch House" (Book of Eibon), "The Horror in the Museum" (Book of Eibon), "The Shadow...
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    St. George's Syrian Catholic Church (category Melkite Greek Catholic churches in the United States)
    14, 2009) Beherec, Marc (August 2021). "The Church That Inspired "The Horror at Red Hook" and the Fall of the House of Suydam". Lovecraft Annual (15):...
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