Explore Providence’s eerie past with Lovecraft and Poe. Uncover dark tales, haunted haunts, and doomed romances on this chilling tour.
- Prospect Terrace - The tour begins here at this majestic overlook of Providence, where Lovecraft spent a lot of time writing his stories.
- Providence Athenaeum - Here guests will discuss the library along with some of the eccentric authors who spend a chapter of their lives wandering its corridors.
- Enthusiastic and expert guide
Walk through Providence’s dark side!
The eerie writings H.P. Lovecraft- one of the most significant supernatural horror fiction authors of the 20th century- are inexplicably bound to his hometown of Providence. This tour walks in the tortured author’s footsteps through his traumatic upbringing and favorite haunts; guests also meet some of the fictional characters that Lovecraft wrote into the city’s fabric through dramatic retellings of his creepiest tales.
But Lovecraft isn’t the only author that ambled the city’s centuries-old sidewalks: Sarah Helen Whitman was an eccentric local spiritualist and poet who was briefly engaged to master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe. This tour also explores her life and relives the couple’s whirlwind- and doomed- romance.
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