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Lovecraft: Providence’s Weird, Troublesome Native Son

H.P. Lovecraft in June 1934, and the exterior of Lovecraft Arts & Sciences in Providence, R.I.
A portrait photograph of H.P. Lovecraft taken in June 1934, and the exterior of the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences shop in Providence, R.I.

The city of Providence, Rhode Island, mostly celebrates the legacy of author H. P. Lovecraft – one of the fathers of horror fiction and, increasingly, a pop culture icon. But there’s a lot to grapple with – and his bleak, wordy prose about incomprehensible interstellar monsters is far from the most difficult thing about Lovecraft.

Excerpt from Nyarlathotep read by G.M. Danielson, music by Kevin MacLeod.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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