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The Street (short story)

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The Boston police mutiny of last year is what prompted that attempt--the magnitude and significance of such an act appalled me. Last fall it was grimly impressive to see Boston without bluecoats, and to watch the musket-bearing State Guardsmen patrolling the streets as though military occupation were
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The terrorism was also real, and had been going on since 1914 in a series of parcel bombs. In 1919 two campaigns of mail bombing were discovered. In 1920 there would be
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in force. They went in pairs, determined-looking and khaki-clad, as if symbols of the strife that lies ahead in civilisation's struggle with the monster of unrest and
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The story's anti-immigrant stance echoes such earlier xenophobic poems by Lovecraft as "New England Fallen" and "On a New-England Village Seen by Moonlight."
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of September–October 1919 inspired Lovecraft to write "The Street," as he declared in a letter to
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describes this story as "manifestly racist." According to Daniel Harms, author of
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H. P. Lovecraft, letter to Frank Belknap Long, November 11, 1920; cited in
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runs its course, the area degenerates into a run-down and polluted
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Hopeless Cases: the hunt for the red scare terrorist bombers
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The story traces the history of the titular street in a
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
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Short story
H. P. Lovecraft
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Horror
short story
horror fiction
H. P. Lovecraft
1919
1920
New England
Boston
World War I
Industrial Revolution
slum
October Revolution
Independence Day
Boston Police Strike
Frank Belknap Long
bolshevism
a major terrorist bomb attack
Wall Street
Peter the Painter
An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana
S. T. Joshi
S.T. Joshi


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