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<\/a>Photograph: A Providence hillside: some lamps lit, the western windows of homes reflecting a fading sunset. By Spencer Grant (1944-), Boston Public Library.<\/p>\n… its ancient vanes and steeples, ridgepoles and chimney-pots, wharves and small bridges, willow-trees and graveyards; endless labyrinths of steep, narrow, crooked streets, and dizzy church-crowned central peak that time durst not touch; ceaseless mazes of colonial houses piled and scattered at all angles and levels like a child\u2019s disordered blocks; antiquity hovering on grey wings over winter-whitened gables and gambrel roofs; fanlights and small-paned windows one by one gleaming out in the cold dusk to join Orion and the archaic stars. And against the rotting wharves the sea pounded; the secretive, immemorial sea out of which the people had come in the elder time.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “The Festival”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sunsets arouse in me vague feelings of pseudo-memory, mystical revelation, and adventurous expectancy, which nothing else can even begin to conjure up. They always seem to me to be about to unveil supernal vistas of other (yet half-familiar) worlds and other dimensions.” — Letter from Lovecraft to R.E. Howard, 7th May 1932.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It looks like it’s sunset for Tentaclii<\/em> too. My thanks to the five people who have pledged a total of $16 to my Patreon campaign<\/a> so far, which much appreciated. But I’m unsure that the Patreon call is going anywhere, sadly — I don’t see anyone even bothering to share the Patreon page on Facebook, Twitter or blogs. No comments on the Tentaclii<\/em> blog, either. Just two on three likes on my various Facebook posts about it. I suspect that I will be pulling it at the end of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NecronomiCon 2015 should be beginning to buzz about now, as people arrive on the Thursday evening. Photograph: A Providence …<\/p>\n