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Tagged: Racism in the text

An imagined chamber of old volumes and forbidden learning, lit in amber.
Literature

Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family reconstructs six generations of an English family whose African connections culminate in a devastating discovery. Its scholar protagonist hopes to vindicate an ancestor’s accounts of a lost city; instead, a recovered specimen identifies the family with the history he has studied. The story joins documentary horror to racist and hereditary assumptions that require explicit critical attribution.

7 min read · 1,266 words

A decaying coastal town recedes into sea mist and cold darkness.
Literature

He

He follows a disillusioned would-be poet through New York’s hidden courtyards to an old house whose occupant can reveal other periods of the city’s existence. A promised recovery of antique beauty exposes violence, temporal instability and the narrator’s own racial fears. The encounter ends with the host’s destruction and the visitor’s flight from the city.

5 min read · 1,040 words

A decaying coastal town recedes into sea mist and cold darkness.
Literature

The Horror at Red Hook

The Horror at Red Hook follows detective Thomas F. Malone into an occult investigation involving the scholar Robert Suydam, disappearances, waterfront passages and a subterranean ceremony. Its official account of a disastrous raid conflicts with Malone’s memories of what lay below the buildings. The story’s urban horror is inseparable from an aggressively racist portrayal of immigration and neighborhood life.

7 min read · 1,383 words