Category Archives: NecronomiCon 2015

St. John’s Park

24 Tuesday Mar 2015

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Possible $150 venue for a NecronomiCon Providence 2015 picnic, if one were willing to gamble on the weather…

June 9th, 2014. The Federal Hill Commerce Association (FHCA), a nonprofit organization representing businesses on Federal Hill, recently announced that it is making St. John’s Park on Atwells Avenue available to businesses and individuals for celebrations, charity events, and outings. Copies of the St. John’s Park rental contract can be downloaded from FCHA’s website. Anyone interested in renting the park can contact Chris Chabot, FHCA’s secretary: Tel: 401-432-7783. E-mail: info@federalhillprov.com

St. John’s on Atwell Avenue was the setting for “The Haunter of the Dark”. The church was closed in 1991 and demolished in the early 1990s, and the site is now St. John’s Park. It has some stone posts and stairs from the old church, and a granite edging. Lovecraft also wrote a poem about a proposal to rename Atwell’s Avenue to “Columbus Avenue”.

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NecronomiCon games wanted

01 Sunday Feb 2015

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Game masters wanted for NecronomiCon Providence 2015…

We’re happy to announce that most of the gaming we’re planning for NecronomiCon Providence 2015 will take place in far more spacious and comfortable accommodations at the Omni Hotel … For those of you who wish to run a game at Necronomicon whether it is a table top RPG, LARP, or board/card game please download and submit this information form … Also any suggestions or recommendations for games you wish to see at Necronomicon feel free to email us with the subject GAME IDEAS”

Arcade Expo

31 Saturday Jan 2015

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Not Lovecraft, but some readers may be interested to hear of the popular culture Arcade Expo. 750 pinball machines, free to play for 3,000 convention attendees. It’s been and gone for 2015, but looks set to be back next year.

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I wonder if something like a good pay-to-play digital Lovecraft pinball table, or three, might raise some cash for a local cats’ charity at NecronomiCon 2015? Someone would have to design the tables though, by re-skinning old public-domain classics, as I know of no Lovecraft themed tables.

NecronomiCon Providence – tickets on sale 6th Feb

29 Thursday Jan 2015

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Highlights from the latest NecronomiCon Providence 2015 news…

* “Convention passes (all levels) on sale 6th February 2015”, from 12 noon Eastern Daylight Time.

* “Most of the convention programming will take place at the Biltmore and Omni hotels, but there will be numerous satellite venues hosting external programming.”

* During the Convention… “a comprehensive collection of correspondence between Lovecraft and many of his friends and penpals on display at the gorgeously renovated John Hay Library at Brown University.”

PulpFest 2015

10 Saturday Jan 2015

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Pulpfest 2015 in Columbus, Ohio from 13th-16th August 2015. Pulpfest 2015 has announced a “H.P. Lovecraft and Weird Tales” theme for 2015. Pulpfest 2015 thus segways rather neatly with NecronomiCon in Providence on 20th-23th August 2015, making for a potential two-week Lovecraft love-in. Three weeks, even, if one were to stay on in Providence to peruse some of the rare treasures of the Lovecraft collection at the John Hay Library and visit some of Lovecraft’s places such as Marblehead.

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