“This man should be known!” Jazz composer, pianist, doctor, author, and native son, Rudolph Fisher, is the most extraordinary black American man no one has heard of, and Ray Rickman intends to fix that. On Thursday, Rickman and fellow Stages of Freedom co-founder Robb Dimmick, spoke at the opening of Rudolph Fisher: Rhode Island’s Gift […]
It’s time for NecronomiCon, the international convention of weird fiction, art, and academia. Events run from August 15th to 18th, starting on Thursday with an opening ceremony at the First Baptist Church with Barnaby Evans and organ music, a thing at the AS220 Black Box, and a cool block party at the Red Door on
Every other year in August, fans of H.P. Lovecraft gather in Providence for NecronomiCon, an international convention of weird fiction, art, and academia. Lovecraft lived most of his life here in Providence and is buried in Swan Point Cemetery where “I Am Providence” is inscribed on his gravestone. So, while the events at the convention
(3.2) Join author Adam Golaski and guests at the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council’s Weird Providence book store downtown in the Arcade to celebrate the release of Golaski’s new book “Stone Gods.” From publisher NO Press: This new collection of strange stories marks Adam’s long-awaited return to horror, following the now cult-classic Worse Than Myself. Stone
(10.15) The Lovecraft Arts and Sciences Council will be hosting a first-ever Sunday matinée reading featuring Maine horror author Katherine Silva, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Robert Ottone, and Aquino Loayza, a Queer Latino author from the Boston area. This installment of the Arcade Asylum Author Series will take place in the lounge adjacent to the
(8.20) The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival kicks off a weekend of all things Lovecraft, including short and feature films, guests, panels, readings, and vendors, this Friday at the Columbus Theatre. Join us August 18-20th . . . for the 4th Biennial H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Lovecraft’s beloved hometown, with help from the
(6.10) The Arcade Asylum Author Series features readings by celebrated and new voices of weird fiction. This Saturday the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council will be hosting New York author Daniel Braum for the release of his new short story collection, “The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales.” Author readings will be followed by a
It is impossible to overstate the penetration of “The Raven” into American culture. It’s still the only poem with its own NFL football team, the Baltimore Ravens. That is where Edgar Allen Poe died and is buried. But just one year prior to his sad and mysterious end, he had visited Providence to pursue a
One of the Providence Athenaeum’s most notable visitors was Edgar Allan Poe. In 1848 he traveled to the city in order to meet and court the wealthy widow and talented poet, Sarah Helen Whitman, with whom he happened to share a birthday, January 19th. She had once written a poem to Poe, to be shared
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(8.21) Get ready for the return of Necronomicon Providence, the world’s premier weird fiction convention brought to you by the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council. People travel from around the world to take part in this four-day celebration of weird fiction, art, and academia, right here in Providence, the home and final resting place of
Although only H.P. Lovecraft fans may pick up on that. Label designer Gage Prentiss originally had the author’s name on the front but it seems to have . . . disappeared. The talented Mr. Prentiss may be better known for his amazing sculptural works: The statue of Lovecraft and his cats, and, more recently, the
Dante Alighieri died just prior to the arrival of the Black Death in Italy, but the bubonic plague had afflicted the country in the past, and there were other epidemic contagions with which he would have been familiar: leprosy, smallpox, tuberculosis, anthrax. So he would have understood the need for masks, and according to his
Either the new HBO eight-episode series ‘Lovecraft Country’ is going to be really really good, or this is an excellent trailer . . . or both. Based on Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he meets up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and his Uncle
(2.21) Noted science fiction author James L. Cambias will be reading from his new occult adventure novel “The Initiate” this Friday at the Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council in the Arcade. (Facebook event page.) As we move through the deepest parts of this “winter,” we’re happy to feature a few great voices in dark fiction
Lovecraft walking tours leave from the John Brown House Museum this weekend and next. Tickets include a ticket to the Horror Festival and can be purchased online. Hosted by the RIIFF: The life and work of Providence’s best-known fantasy and horror author, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, will provide the backdrop for the tour, which will be
(8.25) Weird fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence on August 20, 1890, died in 1937, and was buried at Swan Point Cemetery. The epitaph on his headstone reads: “I Am Providence.” And yet, until very recently, the city had not made much of this, nor given any thought to his enormous international following.