Which Brooklyn neighborhood gives its name to a Lovecraft story?

The Brooklyn neighborhood that gives its name to a Lovecraft story is Red Hook.

“The Horror at Red Hook” was written in 1925 and first published in Weird Tales in January 1927. The story follows Thomas Malone, an Irish-born New York detective drawn into a case involving Robert Suydam, occult activity, disappearances, and sinister subterranean passages beneath the Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood.

Red Hook was a real port and industrial district, and Lovecraft used its crowded streets, docks, immigrant communities, and deteriorating buildings as the story’s setting. The neighborhood is on a peninsula in western Brooklyn, bordered by the Gowanus Canal and Upper New York Bay. Its real history is distinct from the story’s supernatural plot.

The title refers directly to the place, not to a fictional city or an invented neighborhood. Bay Ridge, Greenpoint, and Coney Island are also Brooklyn locations, but none is the setting named in this Lovecraft title. Readers should also note that the story’s stereotypes reflect Lovecraft’s prejudices and are not a neutral account of Red Hook.