# Malone — Short Fiction character guide

> Malone in Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** II To Malone, VII Malone, Thomas F. Malone

**First appearance:** 0035-the-horror-at-red-hook

## Snapshot

A poet turned police detective in Brooklyn whose taste for hidden evil is about to be answered far beyond his wishes.

## Who they are

Malone is a man of letters detailed to the Butler Street station, drawn to the macabre since poverty and exile turned his gaze darker. He has long treated the world's secret horrors as half-spied visions to play with lightly, offset by keen logic and a deep sense of humor. When the Red Hook matter lands in his lap, his private fascination collides with duty, and the latent mystery he always sensed becomes something he cannot put down.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_friendship_

Malone is a fellow investigator or ally who shares the narrator's interest in uncovering dark secrets and supernatural phenomena.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_friendship_

Malone is a fellow investigator or ally who shares the narrator's interest in uncovering dark secrets and supernatural phenomena.

## In the story

### [The Horror at Red Hook](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-horror-at-red-hook)

The narrator and investigator who uncovers the occult activities in Red Hook.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/i)

The protagonist, a New York police detective on leave after a traumatic raid in Red Hook, suffering from a phobia of brick buildings.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/ii)

The protagonist and point-of-view character; a police officer with a poet's background and anthropological knowledge who is deeply disturbed by the hidden evil in Red Hook.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/iii)

Assigned to investigate Robert Suydam and the criminal underworld of Red Hook.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/iv)

Conducts undercover investigation of Kurdish immigrants and Suydam's activities; participates in raids and discovers occult paraphernalia.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/v)

The correspondent who later receives the doctor's account of the events.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/vi)

Leads the raid on Parker Place, searches Suydam's flat, and experiences a horrific vision after breaking into the cellar.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/vii)

Survives the collapse of the Parker Place houses, found unconscious by the pool, and later retreats to Chepachet to recover from the horror.

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