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| Author | Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr. |
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| Cover artist | David Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Subject | H. P. Lovecraft, Providence |
| Publisher | Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 89 pp |
| OCLC | 6079346 |
Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts is a book by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr. detailing sites in Providence, Rhode Island related to H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1979 in an edition of 1,000 copies. The book grew out of a bus tour of Providence that Beckwith held as part of the World Fantasy Convention.
The book offers detailed locations frequented by Lovecraft in his correspondence and his stories and includes specific locations of note, such as St. John's churchyard, where Edgar Allan Poe and Lovecraft both visited. Locations of structures of note, such as the inspiration for Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House" are also included. A revised and expanded edition was published by Grant in 1986 and again in 1990 for Lovecraft's centennial. The book is cited in the work of most scholars in the field, such as S.T. Joshi, Leslie S. Klinger, and Peter Cannon.
As an early study of Lovecraft geography, the book's influence precedes it's publication, with Beckwith being thanked by L. Sprague de Camp for his assistance in de Camp's 1976 Lovecraft: A Biography and continues to this day in Faye Ringel's 2017 chapter on Early American Gothic in The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
References
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 326, 331–332.
- de Camp, L. Sprague (1975). Lovecraft: A Biography. New York: Doubleday. p. 450.
- Reginald, Robert (1992). Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature 1975-1991. Detroit: Gale Research. pp. 78. ISBN 0-8103-1825-3.