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<\/a><\/p>\nI have several times been in a police station — usually to inquire about stolen property, & once to see the Chief of Police about the banning of a client’s magazine from the stands — but never in the part devoted to cells.” — Lovecraft to J. Vernon Shea, 29th May 1933.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In both these instances this was in New York. He had had all his suits and Loveman’s radio stolen by youths, while living at a squalid rooming house in Red Hook. The magazine was the ‘banned in Indiana’ issue of Weird Tales<\/em>. <\/p>\n
If he ever had cause to step inside Providence Police Station appears to be unknown. The stern frontage and lingering litter\/trash does not make it look like the sort of place that would encourage a 14 year old Lovecraft to venture in during Winter 1904\/5, to enquire about his lost cat Trigger-ban — though a graphic novel of his life might plausibly include such a scene — the staunch young Lovecraft weaving through the drunks and leering ner-do-wells to enquire about his beloved feline. Nevertheless, the Police Station was no doubt part of his mental geography of his city, both topographically and via the drip-feed of police news headlines he glanced at daily in the local newspaper. He did not actually read the ‘Police News’ pages, as he told his friend Moe in a letter of 1923, but one imagines some of the more front-page headlines of crime were unavoidable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
More possibly-useful photo-reference for Lovecraftian graphic novels set in Providence. The Providence Police Station, of which I’ve never seen a …<\/p>\n