H. P. Lovecraft 29 min read

A police detective's investigation of a squalid Brooklyn waterfront district uncovers, behind its immigrant slums and a decadent recluse, an ancient cult and a doorway to unspeakable evil.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1927 story is an atmospheric occult-horror tale. Dread-soaked, feverish, of its era. Read it for a lurid, urban Lovecraft nightmare, devil-worship, kidnapping, and cosmic dread erupting in the shadows of New York's Red Hook, a fast-moving horror notable for its dark, teeming city atmosphere and its glimpse of hells beneath the modern metropolis.

In its time

Published in 1927, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

29 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).