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"The Horror at Red Hook" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on August 1–2, 1925,〔(Lovecraft’s Fiction at hplovecraft.com )〕 it was first published in the January 1927 issue of ''Weird Tales''.〔("The Horror at Red Hook" at hplovecraft.com )〕 ==Inspiration== Lovecraft referred to the area's immigrant population by referring to Red Hook as "a maze of hybrid squalor".〔Getlen, Larry (August 14, 2008). ("GHOST STORY" ). ''New York Post''.〕 He spelled out his inspiration for "The Horror at Red Hook" in a letter written to fellow writer Clark Ashton Smith: Lovecraft had moved to New York to marry Sonia Greene a year earlier, in 1924; his initial infatuation with New York soon soured (an experience fictionalized in his short story "He"), in large part due to Lovecraft's xenophobic attitudes. "Whenever we found ourselves in the racially mixed crowds which characterize New York, Howard would become livid with rage," Greene later wrote. "He seemed almost to lose his mind."〔Lin Carter, ''Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos'', p. 45.〕 The story was also inspired by the apartment that Lovecraft lived in, which is actually located on Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, rather than Red Hook. In 2008, children's book marketer Nellie Kurtzman, the daughter of cartoonist and ''Mad'' magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman, heard of the apartment from a friend, saying, "A friend of mine lives on the top floor of this building, and I remember her saying, 'There's this huge apartment in our building where the people seem to have disappeared.'" When Kurtzman and several friends inspected the ground-floor, two-bedroom apartment, it had been left unlocked by the tenants who left mysteriously, without notice. They held a seance, during which they used a Ouija board. Kurtzman, who has a penchant for the unusual that she inherited from her father, moved into the apartment that April with a roommate, after which she experienced unexplained noises, objects moving or disappearing inexplicably and unusual dreams.〔 Much of the magical background to the story was lifted from the articles on "Magic" and "Demonology" in the 9th edition of the ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'', written by anthropologist E. B. Tylor.〔Daniel Harms, John Wisdom Gonce ''Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend''. Weiser Books, 2003 ISBN 1578632692 (p.95).〕 Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce note the spell Lovecraft quotes and describes as a "demon evocation", was actually an incantation used for treasure hunting.〔 The use of the Yezidi as devil-worshipping villains seems to have been inspired by E. Hoffmann Price's "The Stranger from Kurdistan".〔S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, ''An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia'', p. 115.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Horror at Red Hook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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