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H.P. Lovecraft Ghost Haunting Brooklyn Roommates
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John Del Signore
Published Aug 15, 2008
Modified Aug 15, 2008
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Since moving into a Brooklyn Heights apartment occupied by author H.P. Lovecraft in the '20s, a pair of roommates have been having some weird experiences. A picture "mysteriously leaped off" the wall, the hammer used to hang the picture disappeared, a Ouija board seance really freaked everybody out, and a humming noise has gone unexplained. One of the tenants, Nellie Kurtzman (daughter of famous Mad Magazine founding editor Harvey Kurtzman), tells the Post she doesn't believe in ghosts, but she concedes that the apartment, which Lovecraft described as "something unwholesome, something furtive, something vast lying subterraneanly in obnoxious slumber" in his story "The Horror at Red Hook," is weird. Or maybe Lovecraft is just pissed about having "two Jews living here."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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