Waiting for the night bus, Westminster Street, Providence. Probably the first 4.30am early-service, given what’s on the clock. Or perhaps a tram-car, as the road-rails and cables can still be seen.

Lovecraft often departed or arrived in Providence at odd hours, and not always by train. The ends of his local night-walks may also have entailed waiting at various types of transport stop. Night scenes such as this one in the city’s main Westminster Street seem likely to have been relatively familiar to him.

He also, briefly, worked as a ticket-booth man. Mostly likely at a cinema on Westminster Street, which may have entailed some late working hours.