{"id":50254,"date":"2021-10-03T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T04:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=50254"},"modified":"2021-10-03T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T04:21:07","slug":"new-book-providence-blue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/10\/03\/new-book-providence-blue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Providence Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Providence Blue<\/a><\/em> is a new ‘Lovecraft as character’ fantasy novel. Warning: general ‘structure-of-the-novel’ spoilers below.<\/p>\n

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In Rhode Island mysterious creatures were… <\/p>\n

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encountered by renegade preacher Roger Williams on his historical journey that ended with the founding of Providence, Rhode Island. [Later in Providence] Lovecraft is an accomplished and impish ‘Magus’”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He investigates these historical encounters, as these seem to have foreshadowed his own monsters and to have links with a real Cthulhu cult. Even later in Providence…<\/p>\n

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An anxiety-filled former punk-rocker [Wilum Pugmire?], a drifting Athenaeum employee, and an entire cast of unique and well-developed characters find themselves thrown into a puzzling and some harrowing ride around Providence [and beyond]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Catholic World Report<\/a><\/em> newspaper has an interview with the author (with some detailed spoilers, and also a horrid pop-up page-blocking overlay and nags)…<\/p>\n

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Pinault is a Professor of Religous Studies at Santa Clara University, and a native of Providence. … The author’s Catholic faith is evident throughout the story, as each character seeks redemption and an ultimate answer to the myriad sufferings of mankind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sounds fun but there’s no ebook or audiobook version, sadly, just a paperback<\/a>. Might make for a good chunky graphic novel, by the sound of it, it you were looking for such a book to adapt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Providence Blue is a new ‘Lovecraft as character’ fantasy novel. Warning: general ‘structure-of-the-novel’ spoilers below. In Rhode Island mysterious creatures …<\/p>\n

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