![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is, he says, “the only city that could have given birth to Lovecraft, not just physically but in terms of his mythology.” Hobbs cited the number of intact Lovecraft reference points around the city, as well as the creaky, socially stratified New England setting of many of Lovecraft’s tales. in biology at the University of Rhode Island, sees it as a celebration of Providence as much as a celebration of the weird. ![]() Convention director Niels Hobbs, a research scientist working toward a Ph.D. It was the last day of NecronomiCon Providence, billed as “The International Conference and Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia.” Bumper stickers encouraged everyone to “Keep Providence Eldritch.” It was almost time for the Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast to begin.įounded in 2013, NecronomiCon is a biannual event that brings about two thousand visitors-including many from Europe, Central and South America, and beyond-to Providence for four days, in an otherwise sleepy stretch of the calendar, when many college students are still home for the summer. Two cloaked and hooded men swept past, bearing fruit cups. I scuttled down Steeple Street, entered the Art Deco Biltmore Hotel, and took the elevator to the seventeenth floor. At seven-thirty on a recent August morning, Providence was shrouded in mist. ![]()
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