My unofficial round-up of NecronomiCon Providence 2013 news and links…
* Another super NecronomiCon 2013 video from Steve Ahlquist, 88 minutes of the panel on HPL’s Phobias: race, class, and “The Outsider” (Friday, 4:00pm – 5:15pm, Grand Ballroom, Biltmore Hotel)…
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“… analyzing Lovecraft as an individual and in the context of his society and time period. (Peter Cannon, Bob Price, Scott Connors, Lois Gresh, with Rory Raven as moderator)”
* Todd Chicoine’s compilation video of snippets from Thursday and Friday at NecronomiCon 2013… the gaming panel looks surprisingly under-attended…
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* Wessendenwoollies’s nice unfiltered macro, showing the wrinkles on Lovecraft’s own rough sketch of the statuette in “The Call of Cthulhu”…
* Another preview of the Big Nazo creatures which will be roaming the streets tonight at WaterFire…
* Short blurb in The Providence Journal on the art shows…
“Of special note: John Coulthart’s “Cthulhoid”, a creepy digital print that suggests a kaleidoscopic version of the monster from Alien…”
* Good to see that Lovecraft’s gravestone isn’t swamped with a heap of tacky schwag…
Great Yuggoth, whut a week-end!! My next solo book is going to be a collection of tales all set in Providence, inspir’d by this magnificent convention. I was overwhelm’d!!